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/
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