Watchdog: Watching mounted drives

[alt3red]

Is there a way to use watchdog for watching a shared mounted network drive in linux and report when someone else on the network copies files to that folder?

Thank You!

[peci1]

It depends.

• NFS should not work with inotify
• Samba (CIFS) does not work with inotify (my own experience)
• SSHFS does not work with inotify (my own experience)

So, to conclude, you're out of luck unless you want to write the inotify broker mentioned in the SO answer.

A side note: At PyPi index, there is a section with Caveats. I haven't found anything about network drives there, though it should be mentioned there in my view.

should not work with inotify

[spompea]

@alt3red -- Yes, use PollingObserver.

More info: https://pythonhosted.org/watchdog/api.html?highlight=observedwatch#watchdog.observers.polling.PollingObserver

[BoboTiG]

Closing as there is a note in the README.