On 7/25/07, Matthew Hawkins <darthmdh@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted text
> On 7/26/07, Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org> wrote:
> > I'd just like updatedb to amortize its work better. If we had some way
> > to track all filesystem events, updatedb could keep a live and
> > accurate index on the filesystem. And this isn't just updatedb that
> > wants that, beagle and tracker et al also want to know filesystem
> > events so that they can index the documents themselves as well as the
> > metadata. And if they do it live, that spreads the cost out, including
> > the VM pressure.
>
> We already have this, its called inotify (and if I'm not mistaken,
> beagle already uses it).  Several years ago when it was still a little
> flakey patch, I built a custom filesystem indexer into an enterprise
> search engine using it (I needed to pull apart Unix mbox files).  The
> only trouble of course is the action is triggered immediately, which
> may not always be ideal (but that's a userspace problem)
>

With all this discussion about updatedb and locate and such, I thought
I'd do a Google search, (considering I've never heard of locate before
but I've seen updatedb here and there in ps lists) and I found this:

http://www.linux.com/articles/114029

That page mentions something called "rlocate", which seems to provide
some sort of almost-real-time mechanism, although the method it does
so bothers me -- it uses a 2.6 kernel module AND a userspace daemon.
And from what I can tell, there's no indication that this almost
"real-time" (--I see mentions of a 2 second lag--) system
replaces/eliminates updatedb in any way, shape, or form.

http://rlocate.sourceforge.net/ - Project "Web Site"
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rlocate/ - Source Forge Project Summary

The last release also appears a bit dated on sourceforge... release
0.4.0 on 2006-01-15.

Just thought I'd mention it.


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