Can not make it work with usbmount

[vivekanand1101]

I am trying to automate the mounting + detecting a pendrive using usbmount and python-watchdog but, i am not able to make it work. Usbmount is able to detect the pendrive and it is mounted at the correct place (/media/usb). I can see the files using ls but, i expected python-watchdog to detect the "creation" or "modified" event which is not happening. I am using FileSystemEventHandler

[Rocking80]

I got the same issue. Seems watchdog cannot detect changes which not happen on local system.

[xandriaw]

I am having a similar issue with an NFS mount (inside docker). Seems like it doesn't detect the file creation there either :( . If I then copy from inside the machine where python is running to itself, then the file is detected.

[danilobellini]

This seems to be an environment/OS issue, not a watchdog one.

Are you all using the PollingObserver or the default Observer? Are you all using Linux? If yes, which Linux?

From the mount point and the "NFS in Docker", I think you're all on Linux using the inotify observer on a FUSE or network-based file system that has no kernel support for inotify. That means the application can't rely on inotify.

If that's what's going on, there's nothing in this project that could be done: you need to either use the polling observer in the application code, or fix this issue upstream (Linux kernel? inotify? Some driver?) to work with those file systems.