In connection with the Google Desktop Search frenzy and a small contingent asking for a Linux port, I began a small search of already available stuff on Linux and bumped into an interesting project that hasn't been discussed here, yet. (Not to be confused with this: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2003-August/msg00100.html ) URL: fsdb.sf.net (No longer active; just wanted to discuss possibilities). The gist of it is to create a fresher slocate database by using a hook in the kernel to get fs updates and store them in an intermediate format. Then, instead of a daily update, you can setup fsdb to run hourly and it uses a lot less CPU to boot. And the updates only take seconds, instead of the long annoyingly slow "updatedb". I know this only provides name searching not the full gambit that GDS provides. But, it could be a start to improve things a bit more. For example, Konqueror has "Use files index", although it's pretty buggy, which would be more useful if the DB was more up-to-date. It'd be nice to bring a standard DB (with content search) in under the umbrella of freedesktop.org, but that's off-topic here. What other tools have you seen out there? Discuss away! -- -jeff
