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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:55:52 -0600
From: Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>
To: Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
Cc: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>, david@...g.hm,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
ck list <ck@....kolivas.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Paul Jackson <pj@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 09:02 -0700, Ray Lee wrote:
> I'd just like updatedb to amortize its work better. If we had some way
> to track all filesystem events, updatedb could keep a live and
> accurate index on the filesystem. And this isn't just updatedb that
> wants that, beagle and tracker et al also want to know filesystem
> events so that they can index the documents themselves as well as the
> metadata. And if they do it live, that spreads the cost out, including
> the VM pressure.
That would be nice. It'd be great if there was a per-filesystem inotify
mode. I can't help but think it'd be more efficient than recursing
every directory and adding a watch.
Or maybe a netlink thing that could buffer events since filesystem mount
until a daemon could get around to starting, so none were lost.
--
Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>
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