Beagle

[Les Mikesell]

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.
>
>   
No,  the reason that multiple users are on the same machine may be 
because they
work together and share access to many of the same files.   Not  sharing 
the index
would be conceptually like google buildiing a duplicate copy of their 
database for
every user.

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  Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com