[arch-general] inotify and locate

[Tom Gundersen]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:49 PM, 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?

Both KDE (strigi) and Gnome (tracker) have indexers that use inotify.
They are obviously different in focus from locate, but maybe they are
worth investigating if you want something to build on.

Cheers,

Tom