From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:49:34 GMT
Subject: Re: Strange "beagle" interaction..
Message-ID: <20071113214934.GA30950@old.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910711131344t381b939dg47b5e078c52be3b2@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:44:33PM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:

>A better solution would be for the kernel to log inotify events to
>disk in a manner that survives reboots. When Beagle starts it would
>locate its last checkpoint and then process the logged inotify events
>from that time forward. This inotify logging needs to be bullet proof
>or it will mess up your Beagle index.

Perhaps something similar to FsEvents on OSX which is a daemon that
interfaces with the OS to record this very information.

It only works across clean reboots, but it does work there.  Do a bad
shutdown, and your next backup or index take a long time to go scan
everything.

It would also be wonderful to have this for backups as well.

Dave