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I’m currently using virtiofs

I'm fairly certain NFS doesn't usually support inotify, but you can look it up with your version & client of NFS. I also am fairly certain that sshfs does not, though I can't remember if the scripts use just ssh or if there're also sshfs shenanigans between the host & VM. I wouldn't generally expect a bind mount to do inotify, but certainly if it's bound to something that doesn't support it then it won't.

It is not currently supported. There is work-in-progress in adding support for it in Support for inotify in mounted directories by balajiv113 · Pull Request #1913 · lima-vm/lima. It basically sets up a file system watcher on the host, and then touches the files inside the guest. This is necessary because inotify events are generated at the kernel level and not from userland. Once the support is in Lima, and Rancher Desktop desktop has updated to the corresponding Lima version, this should be supported in Rancher Desktop as well.

Super- thanks for the update Is the February timeline because of the sheer amount of work involved, or because there are a lot of tasks ahead of it in the backlog?

It is mostly because it definitely won't make it into the December release, and I don't see us making another release until some time in February. But also note that the upstream PR isn't even merged yet...

Super- thanks for info 🙏