File System Search
Ricardo Veguilla
veguilla at hpcf.upr.edu
Fri Nov 5 09:05:45 UTC 2004
On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 16:28 +0800, Jeff Pitman wrote:
> In connection with the Google Desktop Search frenzy and a small
> contingent asking for a Linux port, I began a small search of already
> available stuff on Linux and bumped into an interesting project that
> hasn't been discussed here, yet. (Not to be confused with this:
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2003-August/msg00100.html )
>
> URL: fsdb.sf.net (No longer active; just wanted to discuss
> possibilities).
>
> The gist of it is to create a fresher slocate database by using a hook
> in the kernel to get fs updates and store them in an intermediate
> format. Then, instead of a daily update, you can setup fsdb to run
> hourly and it uses a lot less CPU to boot. And the updates only take
> seconds, instead of the long annoyingly slow "updatedb".
>
> I know this only provides name searching not the full gambit that GDS
> provides. But, it could be a start to improve things a bit more.
>
> For example, Konqueror has "Use files index", although it's pretty
> buggy, which would be more useful if the DB was more up-to-date. It'd
> be nice to bring a standard DB (with content search) in under the
> umbrella of freedesktop.org, but that's off-topic here.
>
> What other tools have you seen out there?
>
Beagle
http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/
Regards,
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Ricardo Veguilla <veguilla at hpcf.upr.edu>
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