Partial scan on change, Linux server, windows network share, possible?

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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Server Version#: 1.18.8.2468
Player Version#: 4.26.1

I have a Windows network share mounted using CIFS in Ubuntu for my Plex server. The ‘run partial scan when changes are detected’ option doesn’t seem to work. When Plex was on Windows with the same share it worked great. Tried on Linux both with and without docker and the latest version of Plex.

I see a lot of old threads with people struggling to get this feature working but I’m not clear if there is a solution such as using a NFS share. Can anyone enlighten me? Thank you.

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You will never be able to detect changes made on a network share in Linux regardless of the network mounting protocol.

Linux uses the kernel’s inotify service. It only monitors locally mounted devices.
Windows emulates it by silently polling the mounted share at regular intervals.

Your best choice is to enable “Partial” scan and “Periodic” if all changes are made on the backend of the server (which is invisible to the host itself)

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