Why the parameter --auto-reload is not working if the addons path content are links to modules?

Question

Description

Normally if you change your python code means, you need to restart the server in order to apply the new changes.

If the --auto-reload parameter is enabled means, you don't need to restart the server. It enables auto-reloading of python files and xml files without having to restart the server. It requires pyinotify. It is a Python module for monitoring filesystems changes.

Previous Problem

I got the error:

ERROR ? pyinotify: add_watch: cannot watch /home/user/.local/share/Odoo/addons/8.0 WD=-1, Errno=No space left on device (ENOSPC)

But I followed the advice of this link and now I don't get that error anymore:

sysctl -n -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=16384

After this I got this in the server log:

openerp.service.server: Watching addons folder /opt/odoo_8/src/linked-addons
openerp.service.server: AutoReload watcher running

That means that's working properly. And in fact I tested it with a physical addon path and it worked.

Current Problem

I have all my modules en several folders but I only use one addons path: /opt/odoo_8/src/linked-addons. This folder contains all the links of the modules that I'm using. All modules are working well when I run Odoo.

But the problem is that pyinotify is not able to check the files beyond the links and it doesn't reload the files well. What I should do to fix this? Is there a way that pyinotify can recognise the content of the links?

PD: I don't want to change my way of managing the modules folders in Odoo.

Answer 1

The only solution I found is to isolate the custom modules in a different folder. I have added the new folder to the addons path in the configuration file and now everything works fine

addons_path = /opt/odoo_8/src/linked-addons,/opt/odoo_8/src/custom

PD: I saved the module folders directly in the custom folder instead of saving the links to the folders.