Re: Beagle Inclusion/Exclusion Lists

[Daniel Drake <dsd gentoo org>]

Richard Laager wrote:
> 1. Does Beagle have a default exclude list of things like *~, *.o, etc.?

Yes, see beagled/FileSystemQueryable/FileNameFilter.cs

> 2. How well does Beagle cope with removable media? For example, if I
> add /media/usbdisk as a folder to search, is it going to drop and
> reindex that every time the disk is unmounted and remounted? Would I be
> better off using static indexes? I'd really like it to auto-update,
> though. Maybe I could use static indexes and there's some way (via
> gnome-volume-manager or whatever it's called) to re-index when the disk
> is connected?

I'm a bit out of the loop on beagle things, but last time I checked, 
removable media isn't handled intelligently (yet).

> 3. When I add an exclusion pattern, does Beagle remove anything from
> there from the index?

Technically it should be, I'm not sure if this is currently fully 
implemented, see below

> 4. Beagle uses xattrs. How much data is stored that way? Is there a way
> to remove that data, for example, in the case that I exclude a
> directory?

Beagle should drop the indexes, again I'm not sure if it does right now. 
This (and 3) is the aim of 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169222 which is rather tricky 
to solve in full.

Daniel