On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 03:40:20PM -0400, Sean J. Fraley wrote: > > famd is a daemon that monitors the different mounted filesystems that you > have > mounted and notifies other programs of any changes. This is what allows, for > example, Konqueror to automatically update the view of a given folder every > time a file is added or deleted. That way you don't have to explicitly tell > it to refresh the view anytime you want to see if any changes have been made. > > I personally find it pretty handy to have, but it's not absolutely necessary > for KDE to function properly.
If you don't have famd, KDE polls the files directly. It's not a big overhead to poll a few files (which will be in cache), if you find famd's disadvantages are large - just try unmounting and remounting something (camera/memorystick for instance) you've opened in Konqueror that famd knows about. That said, I still run it, I just unload it every time it causes a problem (and never notice the difference). One day I'll uninstall it ... Nick
