Re: Extended attributes lastCrawlAttr

[Nat Friedman <nat novell com>]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 13:27 +0100, Raphaël Slinckx wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> I was  testing beagled and I was wondering why it didn't crawl my
> directories, i saw it throws an exceptions here (CrawlQueue.cs:108)

You need extended attributes enabled on your filesystem.  Add a
"user_xattr" flag to the appropriate entry in /etc/fstab:

/dev/hda4    /home       ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2

> Then it stops crawling.

That is terrible.  We should really handle this more gracefully.  I've
opened a bug on your issue here:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157130

> > private void SetCrawlTime (string path)
> > {
> > 	DirectoryInfo dir = new DirectoryInfo (path);
> > 	if (! dir.Exists)
> > 		return;
> > 	
> > 	try {
> > 		ExtendedAttribute.Set (dir, lastCrawlAttr, StringFu.DateTimeToString (DateTime.Now));
> > 	} catch(Exception e) {
> > 		Console.WriteLine("Failed to set xattr for dir {0}, skipping",dir);
> > 	}
> > }

I think this is probably right, but I'll leave this to Jon.

> Also I'm adding a filter for flac files, and i'll post a patch when it
> is ready (not tested yet). I looked at the Mp3 Filter, and saw it adds
> fixme:artist,fixme:xx properties, is this normal ?

Yes, we haven't named our metadata properties or namespaced them
properly yet, so we're calling our namespace "fixme" as a placeholder.

Nat