Re: [9fans] walk and find again

2010-02-09 Thread erik quanstrom
> - walkfs can cache/reuse results from previous runs that is a bad idea. caching is just going to cause trouble. > > - no more hassle with space or other special characters in filenames what? if the underlying fs doesn't want to do spaces, you can't force it. > > - inaccessible parts of the

Re: [9fans] walk and find again

2010-02-09 Thread Georg Lehner
erik quanstrom wrote: One usage scenario of walkfs is to implement find, du, walk, rdup and the like. Another usage [scenario] of walkfs, with the -s option, is to add file indexing to a fileserver. this seems more complicated than a straightforward non-fileserver based implementation.

Re: [9fans] walk and find again

2010-02-09 Thread erik quanstrom
> One usage scenario of walkfs is to implement find, du, walk, rdup and > the like. Another usage [scenario] of walkfs, with the -s option, is to add > file > indexing to a > fileserver. this seems more complicated than a straightforward non-fileserver based implementation. why do you need a f

[9fans] walk and find again

2010-02-08 Thread Georg Lehner
walk, find, locate and friends try to cope with exploring filesystem metadata at breadth and length effectively, efficiently and with controlled time/space consumption. Proposal: walkfs(4) (or finds, or indexfs, or sphinx, or ...) walkfs serves a filesystem tree similar to network devices. A