Beagle

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sat Jan 20 17:23:58 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 19:52 +1030, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 22:04 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Are you saying every user needs his own instance and each will index
> > all files accessible by that that user?  That doesn't sound very
> > efficient for a multiuser system.
> 
> Hmm, dunno about that, unless you're hoping for some compression
> efficiencies in the cataloging.  If you had three users which end up
> with 1 megs worth of catalogs each, versus three users which each put 1
> meg into a global catalog, you're still using 3 megs worth of disk
> space.  Though, you mightn't want several indexing processes running all
> the time, unless they really had a minimal load on the system.
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I suppose if you were using a supported version of fedora, you would
have beagle installed and you could post informatively rather than
speculating on things you haven't looked at.

Craig




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