On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 16:28 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote: > 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 URL: fsdb.sf.net (No longer active; just wanted to discuss 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? > Beagle http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/ Regards, -- Ricardo Veguilla <veguilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
