Tracker is a light weight search and index tool for desktop user even from its design time.
If your data is huge enough, I guess that you have to write special software for your need. > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, James Cornell wrote: > > >> Meta tagging on only newly created files is a better way, since the >> > > If the computer is attached to 300TB of file data, how do you propose > that this "tracker" know about the new files without spending weeks > rummaging through the filesystems, consuming lots of CPU, network > bandwidth, storage IOPS, and power? Now imagine the effect if 10,000 > computers running "tracker" are attached to that same 300TB of file > data. > > This sort of facility has no business being included by default in an > enterprise OS. It is like handing a grenade to a child with the pin > already pulled and asking him not to let go. > > The idea of a content addressable filesystem is appealing but it does > not scale. > > 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/20081016/849d1483/attachment.html>
