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Klaasjan Brand fedora at kjb.dds.nl
Mon Apr 18 05:56:23 UTC 2005


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.

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?

Klaasjan





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