Why is Fedora a multimedia disaster? - Here is why.

[Tim]

Tim:
>> Ugh, rather than store data in a sane way in the first place, do more
>> work on top of it, repeatedly.  I'm reminded of mail programs that
>> continually re-index their mail folders, rather than update their
>> indexes when things get changed, leaving them alone in the meantime.
 

Mikkel L. Ellertson:
> No - this was in a way to handle files that were added, but were
> missing the data, not files created properly. IN other words, how to
> handle files that would otherwise fall through the cracks. 

I still think it'd be better to change the mechanism for how files are
saved, so it's fixed at the right moment.  Having to have something
always assessing the drive, it just doing more work, continuously.  We
could end up with a never ending procession of file preening daemons
running all the time, otherwise (locate, plus update, plus...).

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