What exactly does beagle?
Hi all :-) I've a server with samba share and rsyncd on many folders. On my client I've the share folders mounted with smbmount on server and beagle active on this mounting share. Often, when I use rsync to do a backup of many folders (the same shared) rsync copy several files and dir that I don't modified(!) Can bealge while indexing, modify that file? (access time, or other?) If I don't active beagle this don't happen. Thanks! Pol ___ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
Re: What exactly does beagle?
I've a server with samba share and rsyncd on many folders. On my client I've the share folders mounted with smbmount on server and beagle active on this mounting share. Often, when I use rsync to do a backup of many folders (the same shared) rsync copy several files and dir that I don't modified(!) Can bealge while indexing, modify that file? (access time, or other?) Generally during indexing Beagle writes some bookkeeping metadata in the extended attribute of a file. Also, during crawling it reads the extended attributes. Both of these changes the ctime and the atime of the file. You can run with BEAGLE_DISABLE_XATTR; then it wont write and read extended attributes. But during indexing it has to read the file, so atime would be changed. (From http://beagle-project.org/FAQ Do I really need extended attributes?) - dBera -- - Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com beagle / KDE fan Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user ___ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
Re: What exactly does beagle?
You can run with BEAGLE_DISABLE_XATTR; then it wont write and read extended attributes. But during indexing it has to read the file, so atime would be changed. smbfs doesn't support XATTR attributes. I can disable in rsync the atime directive. Thanks! Pol ___ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
Re: beagle r4019 - in trunk/beagle: Util beagled beagled/DownloadsMetadataQueryable
Hi Kevin, Just a passing comment, I for some reason dont feel very comfortable with this backend. Its an uneasy feeling, probably because of the fact that the metadata (i.e. the origin of a file) information is not available in the file itself nor there is a guarantee that the metadata is always correct. And, again, is something that probably should have been prototyped first on a branch, or a bugzilla patch. I agree with Joe on this one - I moved the changes to beagle-external-metadata-tags branch. The problem has significant overlap with that of implementing any external-metadata backend, including tags. Lets think about the problem and get it fixed in the branch. - dBera -- - Debajyoti Bera @ http://dtecht.blogspot.com beagle / KDE fan Mandriva / Inspiron-1100 user ___ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
