[Freevo-devel] Re: beacon and excessive stating

[Dirk M. <di...@fr...>]

Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> When crawling directories, beacon stats all files in a directory.  If
> the directory has already been indexed, technically it only needs to
> stat the directory and not all the regular files underneath it.  It only
> needs to stat all the regular files if the mtime on the dir has changed.

No

| phex-> ll tmpfoo -d
| drwxr-xr-x 2 dmeyer users 4096 14. Apr 15:27 tmpfoo
| phex-> ll tmpfoo/foo.txt 
| -rw-r--r-- 1 dmeyer users 0 14. Apr 15:27 tmpfoo/foo.txt

We now change a file inside the dir (e.g. change an fxd or a download
continues)

| phex-> touch tmpfoo/foo.txt  

Now the file is changed...

| phex-> ll tmpfoo/foo.txt   
| -rw-r--r-- 1 dmeyer users 0 26. Apr 10:39 tmpfoo/foo.txt

... the dir is not

| phex-> ll tmpfoo -d        
| drwxr-xr-x 2 dmeyer users 4096 14. Apr 15:27 tmpfoo


Dischi

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