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[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

man, 18.04.2005 kl. 09.41 skrev shrek-m at gmx.de:
> Klaasjan Brand wrote:
> 
> >>Perhaps, but the justification for disabling it seems to be:
> >>1. Laptops
> >>2. Err.. that's it.
> >>and disabling such a common useful tool with next to no justification
> >>seems, well, bizarre.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >3. Older systems and/or systems with slower disk get totally
> >unresponsive for a few minutes.
> >
> >4. With all the file-alteration monitor goodness available in modern
> >Linux kernels isn't it about time someone thinks of a better way to
> >maintain an index instead of reading the entire fs?
> >
> 
> something like "spotlight" in macosx 10.4 - tiger ?
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spotlight/
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/

That exists for linux (actually has for a while) - its called "beagle".
Uses inotify is aviable, else fam. Only problem is mono - its made in
C#...

http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/

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