Is it just because /home/brian/Pictures is on an NFS server that
tracker just loops, constantly crawling it?
29 Nov 2017, 20:04:04:1% File System - Crawling recursively
directory 'file:///home/brian/Pictures'
29 Nov 2017, 20:10:14:1% File System - Crawling recur
Hello Brian,
FAM is for intercepting syscalls like open I believe. This is what
virusscanners need. Tracker uses inotify at this moment.
With the Linux kernel there is no way to monitor a root of a filesystem
other than registering each and every directory (which is what crawling
is for).
One of
On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 15:26 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> Hello Brian,
Hi.
> FAM is for intercepting syscalls like open I believe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Alteration_Monitor
The FAM subsystem allows applications to watch certain files and be
notified when they are modified.
FAM is
Ok, I suppose you could contribute a FAM backend for tracker-miner-fs
then. Wouldn't be bad to have support for multiple kinds of file-
monitoring.
On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 09:37 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 15:26 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > Hello Brian,
>
> Hi.
>
On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 19:46 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> Ok, I suppose you could contribute a FAM backend for tracker-miner-fs
> then. Wouldn't be bad to have support for multiple kinds of file-
> monitoring.
The original question was that I thought that Tracker already had this
(and did it dis
On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 14:21 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 19:46 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > Ok, I suppose you could contribute a FAM backend for tracker-miner-
> > fs then. Wouldn't be bad to have support for multiple kinds of
> > file-monitoring.
>
> The original qu
Hey,
Sorry to butt in. I am just a mere spectator here. :)
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 08:38:08PM +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 14:21 -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-11-30 at 19:46 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> > > Ok, I suppose you could contribute a FAM bac
Hi Brian!
What tracker version is this?
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 3:55 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> Is it just because /home/brian/Pictures is on an NFS server that
> tracker just loops, constantly crawling it?
>
> 29 Nov 2017, 20:04:04:1% File System - Crawling recursively
> di
On Fri, 2017-12-01 at 09:50 +, Debarshi Ray wrote:
Hello Debarshi Ray,
> > The answers to your original question are: no it never had FAM
> > support,
> > and no that doesn't sound like expected behavior.
>
> Tracker uses GLib's GFileMonitor API these days, which has various
> implementation
On Fri, 2017-12-01 at 13:50 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
>
> We don't constantly crawl anything, at least on purpose :).
That was what I {sus,ex}pected but wanted to be sure my assumption was
correct.
> Tracker
> does no special treatment of NFS mounts,
But it does not have the benefit of thin
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