Re: What exactly does beagle?

[Debajyoti Bera <dbera web gmail com>]

> 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

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