Docker volume mounts and inotify

[scavone]

When the webserver container would first start, it would consume files sitting in the mapped folder but subsequent files being dropped would remain and not be imported.

I did some digging in the issue trackers upstream and here and noticed that it has to do with inotify. The recommendation was to change the command in the upstream docker-compose.yml file to ["document_consumer", "--no-inotify"]

Obviously that isn’t how this fork executes things but I do see that the command is executed on Line 9 in the paperless-consumer.service

What do you think would be the best way to implement the --no-inotify flag?

[shamoon]

#118

[jonaswinkler]

The configuration option you're looking for is PAPERLESS_CONSUMER_POLLING.

[scavone]

Thank you! I had searched the documentation for document_consumer but not inotify. Obvious in hindsight. I really appreciate the quick reply. Made the change and it works like a charm!