Tracker support customized Tag. user can add/remove tag for files, and search file by using it.
it is a good feature. > Meta tagging on only newly created files is a better way, since the > media-oriented view of modern operating systems applies to what's > added after, such as movies, music, and pictures, and Microsoft kinda > sorta has gone that direction, but unfortunately there's a scarcity of > files with actual tags. If users tagged directories and files, with > filters on the type without an indexer arbitrarily doing everything in > a particular area of the filesystem, then the performance would be > much better and the goal of the indexing would be met. > > Since the web has gone the way of categorization and tagging, so as > places (Geotagging) and media on youtube as an example, I think this > is a better avenue to design the indexer around, versus the current > bloated binary database with hundreds of thousands of non-user files > being indexed. > > Tracker, Beagle, Spotlight and Windows Search all base everything > around the actual files, later classifying on file type after the > fact, which is a huge performance hit. At least on Vista it excludes > the main drive and only does the user's data, such as Start Menu and > Documents folders. > > James > On Oct 15, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > >> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, James Cornell wrote: >> >> >>> You can disable .DS_STORE creation on network filesystems, which >>> should ease some of the stress. You can also outright disable the >>> indexer or tell it places not to do it. >>> >> This bug entry shows the considerable pain that trackerd has been >> causing for Ubuntu users: >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tracker/+bug/131983 >> >> A Google search shows thousands of cries of anguish regarding this >> search indexer. >> >> It seems that Windows and Mac have decided that the core focus of >> the OS should be to allow users to perform "Google" like searches of >> their files. This causes lots of performance problems during normal >> system use. Perhaps I am weird but I use a heirarchical filesystem >> layout and intelligent naming to help me keep track of things and >> rarely need to consult some sort of search "oracle" as if I had been >> struck by a stroke or advanced senility. >> >> This indexer tool should definitely default to "off" for Solaris. >> >> Bob >> ====================================== >> Bob Friesenhahn >> bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ >> GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20081016/48bd5d4f/attachment.html>
