Jan Claeyswrote: > Op vrijdag 04-01-2008 om 04:33 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Bryan > Quigley: > >> Is there any possibility of have locate use the tracker database? >> > > Tracker databases are currently per-user, so I don't think that would be > useful. > > Maybe if there ever exists a concept of a system database next to the > user database in Tracker...? > The problem is, Tracker only indexes home folders, not the whole filesystem. And Tracker uses a complex indexing with keywords that is not needed for locate. Merging the per-user databases would be a mess, so forget it...
By the way, exluding home directories from the updatedb path could be nice: we don't need to index user folders because Tracker is doing that, and this would avoid much work for updatedb. Still, rlocate seems to be a nice improvement (combined or not with the latter feature): it's a locate implementation that uses a kernel module to store a list of modified/moved files and folders, and once a day (or when you want) this list is read and the database is updated via a diff. Looks more advanced than mlocate, isn't it? http://rlocate.sourceforge.net/ Just a few ideas -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss