On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 07:56 +0200, Klaasjan Brand wrote: > 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. is that still true for the 2.6 kernel ? (it shouldn't) > > 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? there is no decent file change monitor available in the linux kernel right now; dnotify is a lot but not decent ;)
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