Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Jerry Tan wrote: > >>> 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. >> > > I really don't get it. Sun used to be "The Network Is The Computer" > company. At least it still was on March 20, 2006 as proven by this > blog entry from Jonathan Schwartz: > "http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/the_network_is_the_computer";. > Have things changed now? Has Sun become the "Every Computer Is A > Personal Computer" company? Please tell me it is not so! > > Assuming that Sun still is "The Network Is The Computer" company, can > you explain to me how this local daemon called gamin will know if one > of the thousands of other computers on the network has changed a file > in the network server directory where my home directory resides? > > 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 > Ha ha, quite a good point. The intention of Indiana now that I look at it again is desktops, so yes all computers are a desktop. Sun ray and servers have been only partially in the loop with OpenSolaris and as another post you made about Minimal Install CD is that Sun doesn't charge extra for the whole package and doesn't make assumptions about underlying hardware or target user base, which is an unfortunate side effect of originally being heavily network and server oriented as a company and is a weakness because so far they have not made good on back porting the important technology such as an updated gstreamer framework and associated dependencies or enhancements to SMF performance, hopefully to change with Solaris 10 U6 but it'll still leave a lot to be desired and will be yet more aged to those poor users holding out on unified media (As Indiana or SXCE) that isn't so demanding on resources or forceful (As in desktop purpose).
James
