[Mono-list] mod_mono doesn't monitor file changes on Novell shares

[Erik Dasque]

My guess is that the file watchers don't work on network shares ?

Erik

On Jul 9, 2004, at 8:39 AM, Andrew Arnott wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> mod-mono-server.exe is quite the awesome replacement for IIS.  Well 
> done.
>
> I do have an issue now with its caching.  The ASPX files for the web 
> sites
> reside on a remote server accessible via a Novell share, which we 
> access
> from Linux via ncpmount.  The pages come up just fine, except when 
> changes
> are made to the file.  On a local Linux partition, mod-mono-server 
> flushes
> the cache for a file when it has changed recently.  On a Novell share, 
> Mono
> fails to monitor file changes and as a result continues caching the 
> page
> anyway, so changes to the file only show up after restarting
> mod-mono-server.
>
> IIS fails to host ASP.NET web sites at all off of Novell shares 
> because IIS
> "failed to start monitoring file changes on..." at any aspx file 
> access.
>
> Maybe Novell shares do not allow monitoring of file changes.  But 
> can't we
> do a date/time stamp comparison on the files with each page access to 
> detect
> changes?
>
> I think I'll write a formal bugzilla report on this, unless there 
> already is
> one.  But what can be done about this?
>
> - Andrew
>