From 14911aae21ec4975f7a805b91e3c4867cb41974b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christophe Besson Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:17:32 +0200 Subject: feat: let the operator pause and resume a root's indexing (MNP 6.2) A whole-root walk now checks its root before every file: removed or ejected, it stops instead of reading the drive to the end; paused, it finishes from the hash cache alone. A paused root is not watched, not swept by reconcile and survives a restart (roster), its indexed files stay served. Resume runs the reconcile sweep over the root, so entries and their enrichment are kept. Signed root_pause / root_resume over MNP, loopback routes, CLI `root pause|resume`, a pause button on the indexing dock and pause/resume in the roots table of Group settings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- docs/USERGUIDE.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'docs/USERGUIDE.md') diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index 5649b30..42103d6 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -695,6 +695,13 @@ catalogued. Group → Settings has the re-check interval and how long the node waits after a file changes before indexing it. Members see indexing progress while it runs. +**Pausing.** Indexing a large drive takes hours. The pause button on the +indexing band, or **Pause indexing** beside the directory in Group → Settings, +stops it at the next file. The files already indexed stay visible to members. +Nothing else in that directory is indexed until you click **Resume indexing**, +not even a file a member uploads into it, and the pause survives a restart. +Resuming picks up where it stopped: files already indexed are not read again. + One thing that surprises people: **two identical files in one group are one entry**, because a file is identified by its content. A scan that reports ten files and indexes nine has not lost anything. @@ -1058,6 +1065,7 @@ meshbay-node reset erase all node state (destructive) meshbay-node group list|add|remove groups this node hosts meshbay-node root list|add|remove|set directories in a group meshbay-node root eject|plug removable drives +meshbay-node root pause|resume stop and restart a directory's indexing meshbay-node gek init|rotate the group's encryption key meshbay-node operator pair authorise a browser -- cgit v1.2.3