Considerations when AFD runs on a NFS filesystem (cont.)


When you monitor directories on an NFS filesystem and you have problems that AFD does not pick up files, use the [dir options] 'force reread'. NFS sometimes does not update the date of the directory correctly. 'force reread' will force AFD to read the content of the directory every time during each scan. Otherwise it would just check the date of the directory to see if anything changes.

For performance and stability reasons it is not good if fifodir is on an NFS mount. Better to use tmpfs or ram disk for the fifodir.  This has the disadvantage that you will loose some statistical information after a system crash, but you will not loose any data.