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praddy
praddy

Reputation: 167

how to maintain lastaccesstime using manifold cf

I am using manifold cf based windows fileshare connector to crawl files. But Manifold CF also updates the lastAccessTime of all files that it reads.

I want to read all files without updating their lastAccessTime.

Which files in Manifold CF I need to update and how to achieve this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 85

Answers (1)

schuch
schuch

Reputation: 86

ManifoldCF does currently not maintain the last access timestamps for shared files crawled with its SharedDriveConnector. It uses jcifs which has no support for reading or restoring the last access timestamp of touched files.

However, as you already noticed, the Google Search Appliance (GSA) somehow manages to keep the last access timestamps. So it should also be possible for ManifoldCF.

In version 3 of the GSA, its filesystem connector relied on a patched version of jcifs. (see github.com/googlegsa/filesystem.v3) And the release notes of that version indicate, that the connector was able to keep the timestamps too. (see Release Notes)

So ManifoldCF might be patched to also keep the last modified timestamp, by using the patched version of jcifs from google. The best way to discuss something like this further is to post this requirement to the manifoldcf mailing list [email protected] or by opening a feature request in the Issue Tracker

Update 2017-07-13 The Feature was discussed in CONNECTORS-1429 and will not be implemented.

An interesting fact is, that in version 4, the GSA went away from jcifs. Instead the GSA connector relies on native windows facilities.

Another sidenote: In order to be able to update a last access timestamp, the user used for crawling needs the Write basic attributes permissions. (see GSA documentation)

Upvotes: 0

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