Comment 32 for bug 21790

No messages in dmesg here (inotify not disabled). I also don't find any inotify
device in /dev

(In reply to comment #31)
> (In reply to comment #30)
> > (In reply to comment #28)
> >
> > > For example, you can try disabling inotify as I requested in comment #17.
> >
> > I've tried booting with "noinotify" appended to the grub boot string and see no
> > change (IO is still slow when logged into GNOME). I'm not sure if inotify *has*
> > actually been disabled - is there any way I could tell?
>
> If you boot with inotify, dmesg should show something (I guess) - and - in
> /dev/, there should be an inotify device if inotify started