Subfolder are not getting synced

[eznix86]

My configuration:

#docker-compose.yml

version: '3'
services:
  my-container:
    image: my-image:dev
    volumes:
      - my-container-files-sync:/var/www/
      
  my-container_sync:
    image: codycraven/quick-bind-sync:latest
    depends_on:
      - my-container
    volumes:
      - type: bind
        source: .
        target: /host
      - type: volume
        source: my-container-files-sync
        target: /volume    
        
      
volumes:
  my-container-files-sync:
    

[codycraven]

@theArtechnology it's been a long time since I've used this approach, I just finished refreshing myself with the code, so bear with me in diagnosing this.

If I recall correctly, the initial sync can take some time since unison must copy everything from your bind mount to the VM's volume.

Can you tell me:

1. How large (number of files and directory size) is your host directory that you are bind mounting?
2. How long after you started the quick-bind-sync container did you wait before you observed the issue?
3. What you see when you check the logs of the quick-bind-sync container?

[eznix86]

Thanks for the reply.

The project directory is pretty big, it took like 15 mins to sync. But it doesn't resolve my issue about slow response time from my server due to slow Docker for Mac issue for binding.

[codycraven]

If the initial sync is completing and your app still has performance issues I'd assume the cause is that I created this solution for OSXFS. Docker for Mac has since introduced a new file system mounting solution called gRPC FUSE.

It's possible that the gRPC FUSE incurs a performance penalty on any volume, not just bind mounts. I do know the gRPC FUSE didn't actually improve any performance problems to a sufficient degree for my team at work.

Note this is purely speculation on my part, you could try switching back to OSXFS to see if it resolves the performance issue you're encountering. You'll probably want/need to delete your current sync volume after switching to OSXFS before starting the containers up again if you are going to try it.

[eznix86]

Well, I changed the way how my binds are made, instead of doing a full bind of the project. I did bindings to smaller parts of the project using multiple containers for each folders/volumes. Now the sync is faster. Thanks for this repository.

# docker-compose.yml
    volumes:
      - volume_one:/var/www/cache/
      - volume_two/var/www/log/
      - volume_three:/var/www/node_modules/
 # ...

plus I rewrote the command in the docker-compose.yml file to suit my needs because file permission wasn't working

   # docker-compose.yml
   #   ...
       command: unison /host /volume -auto -batch -repeat watch -copyonconflict -prefer newer -perms 0