[Nepomuk] Nepomuk Reindex files sometimes

Sebastian Trüg trueg at kde.org
Fri Aug 26 09:31:37 UTC 2011


it is used and only changed files are re-indexed.
In 4.7 only the single changed file is updated. in previous versions the
whole folder is updated. Here "updated" means that the mtime is compared
for each file in the folder and if that changed the file is re-indexed.

On 08/26/2011 05:31 AM, Weng Xuetian wrote:
> Hi,
> Nepomuk sometimes will try to reindex the files under a directory due to a 
> single file change (I notice you guys are having plan to avoid scan unchanged 
> files), but it seems nepomuk never uses the file modify time to check whether 
> the file is changed or not. If it was used, I think thousands of reindexing 
> events can be avoid on my laptop.
> 
> Do nepomuk really use it? If not, is there any reason for not using this? I 
> see nepomuk already stores the index creation time in KDE 4.7 (Wwhich 
> shouldn't be display on info panel by default and the displayed time seems to 
> use the wrong timezone), I think a simple compare will avoid most of reindex 
> on my disk.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
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