[maemo-developers] [Fwd: [Bug 2772] Metalayer Crawler adds all oggs from Map application (with large CPU and memory usage)]

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Larry Battraw wrote:
> I would suggest a file at the root of each filesystem (call it either
> .noindex or noindex.txt).  Formatting is just a list of directories
> within the filesystem using relative addressing with simple globbing
> allowed like so:
> 
> dev/*
> sys/*
> proc/*
> home/user/maps/*.ogg

What would be the use-case for specifying that only specific types of
files should not be indexed in given location? (see below)

> mapinfo*
> ...
> 
> That would be ok for removable media but perhaps less so for the
> rootfs since it violates conventions on what typically appears at the
> root (Do we care?).  We might also allow the file to appear anywhere
> and apply for files in the directory (And subdirectories) too.

I think this would be better as directory (and it's subdirectory)
specific as that way this information keeps there when user
moves/renames the folders.  "touch .noindex" would mean "this directory
and its subdirectories don't contain anything that should appear in
any index, the content is internal to the program owning the dir".
(and maybe user could have some UI for this too)

But anyway, my question was more about are there any already existing
public specs on something like this, instead of how it should work. :-)


	- Eero

> Larry
> 
> On Jan 14, 2008 12:11 PM, Tuomas Kulve <tuomas at kulve.fi> wrote:
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: [Bug 2772] Metalayer Crawler adds all oggs from Map application
>> (with large CPU and memory usage)
>> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:31:24 +0200 (EET)
>>
>> https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2772
>>
>>
>> ------- Comment #16 from eero.tamminen at nokia.com  2008-01-14 18:31 GMT+3
>> -------
>> Crawler could support something like ".noindex" file for skipping certain
>> directories from scanning.  Map could then use that, but it would need
>> to be a maemo standard so that also 3rd party crawlers would use it.
>>
>> Is there any (open source or other) standard for skipping directories from
>> scanning?