26 Feb
2012
26 Feb
'12
12:18 p.m.
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:49:55 +0800, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> 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?
Great idea, though I thought inotify doesn't suit this task. For updatedb, it should call inotify_watch for every file on the filesystem, that's quite inefficient. I think Linux's audit system could do this, though.