[arch-general] inotify and locate

[Raven]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:49:55 +0800, Andrea Crotti  
<andrea.crotti.0 at 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.