On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 23:15 +0200, nodata 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? Klaasjan