Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 | From | Zan Lynx <> | Date | Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:55:52 -0600 |
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On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 09:02 -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
> I'd just like updatedb to amortize its work better. If we had some way > to track all filesystem events, updatedb could keep a live and > accurate index on the filesystem. And this isn't just updatedb that > wants that, beagle and tracker et al also want to know filesystem > events so that they can index the documents themselves as well as the > metadata. And if they do it live, that spreads the cost out, including > the VM pressure.
That would be nice. It'd be great if there was a per-filesystem inotify mode. I can't help but think it'd be more efficient than recursing every directory and adding a watch.
Or maybe a netlink thing that could buffer events since filesystem mount until a daemon could get around to starting, so none were lost. -- Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org> [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |