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by RussianCow 3609 days ago
> Plus there are vagrant plugins that let you sync a directory to the vm in a way that gives you inotify events so live build/update tools can run in your containers (which btw is huge, I can't believe the official apps haven't even attempted to address that, as far as I've seen).

If you don't mind, what are these plugins? This is one thing that's sorely missed when I do development with Vagrant. I did a small amount of searching and trial and error, but couldn't find a solution that worked for me.
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maccam94 3609 days ago
There used to be a separate vagrant plugin for rsync but it's now built-in. There is also built-in support for NFS and virtualbox/vmware synced folders. These all work reasonably well until you start having fairly large numbers of files/directories.

Also if you use a native Linux host with LXC or Docker there is no overhead for sharing directories with the container, it's just a bind mount.

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RussianCow 3609 days ago
I don't believe NFS supports inotify events? At least, that's what I'm using, and I'm forced to use polling for any file change detection. And rsync is one-way IIRC. But yes, LXC on Linux works great when it's feasible; I've just been looking for something that supports file change detection on other platforms.
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