Canop/bacon

File watcher doesn't work on mounted files on Docker (Windows host)

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#313 opened on Jan 21, 2025

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I am running bacon --headless run-long on a docker dev container to hot reload. Container is using volume mounted from Windows host and bacon should be watching the files on that volume. Running on windows and running on linux works fine. But for some reason file watcher doesn't seem to work on this specific case.

I think bacon checks for the file changes by listening inotify events. Is there any option that uses polling instead that I have missed?

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Look into how bacon detects file changes and see if there is a polling mode. Test with Docker volume mounts on Windows to reproduce the issue. Check the file watcher library used (likely notify crate) and its behavior on mounted filesystems.
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