Hi, bob,
please see my answers inline.
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Harry Lu wrote:
>
>> Yes, it will index your home directory by default when it is started.
>> After the index is finished, it will idle until files
>> added/removed/modified in your home directory.
>>
>
> How does it know if files are added/removed/modified in the user's
> home directory?
>
There is a daemon called gamin, which will accept add/remove/modified
information for file
from FAM (one module of kernel).
and invoke tracker function to index these files again.
please refer to http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/
> What is the behavior like if the home directory is accessed over a
> network?
>
Just like a normal local file system.
> What is the behavior like if the user is logged into 10 machines at
> once which share the same home directory?
>
The indexed data will be stored under Home directory,
so user can access these data across machines.
> Is this somehow superior to the Mac DOS ("Denial Of Service")
> "mdworker" implementation or will Solaris finally catch up to the Mac
> in its ability to destroy the network and servers as well as local CPU
> and disk bandwith? On the Mac I often find that OS-X's indexing
> service consumes massive resources during bulk file copies.
>
> Bob
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