On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:49:55AM +0000, Andrea Crotti wrote: > It's a bit a shame that there isn't any default good indexing system > for Linux. > Now there is also a inotify implementation and tools to set up > watchers on the filesystem, > so why are we still mainly stuck with locate and the expensive updatedb? > > Are there other problems with the inotify approach maybe or just > lack of developer interest?
One problem with inotify is that it, AFAIK, requires adding each and every directory separately to the inotify watch, which just doesn't work with the entire /home, much less /. Fanotify can watch entire trees easily, but is a root-only API for now. -- Mantas Mikulėnas <graw...@gmail.com>
