Bug 424924

Summary:	Please add *.qcow2 as exclude filter for extensions
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-baloo	Reporter:	Martin Steigerwald <Martin>
Component:	Baloo File Daemon	Assignee:	Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.70.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian unstable
OS:	Other
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Martin Steigerwald 2020-08-02 13:35:34 UTC

I think there is no good reason to index virtual machine images.

I added it to my configuration manually already.

Comment 1 Stefan Brüns 2020-08-04 23:56:14 UTC

Why not? I may have stored some VM image in one of my projects folders and no longer remember which one. So it should be indexed.

Indexing a VM image only takes up a few dozens of bytes in the DB.

There are plenty of complaints from users where baloo skips a file. We should not any more reasons to complain.

Comment 2 Martin Steigerwald 2020-08-07 09:24:26 UTC

I experienced baloo repeatedly trying to index a qcow file *while* I was using the VM, causing considerably extra load on the system.

This is with Baloo 5.70.

Has this been fixed meanwhile? If not, I'd file a new bug about that.