Beagle

[Les Mikesell]

Craig White wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 19:52 +1030, Tim wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 22:04 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>     
>>> Are you saying every user needs his own instance and each will index
>>> all files accessible by that that user?  That doesn't sound very
>>> efficient for a multiuser system.
>>>       
>> Hmm, dunno about that, unless you're hoping for some compression
>> efficiencies in the cataloging.  If you had three users which end up
>> with 1 megs worth of catalogs each, versus three users which each put 1
>> meg into a global catalog, you're still using 3 megs worth of disk
>> space.  Though, you mightn't want several indexing processes running all
>> the time, unless they really had a minimal load on the system.
>>     
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> I suppose if you were using a supported version of fedora, you would
> have beagle installed and you could post informatively rather than
> speculating on things you haven't looked at.
>
>   
I have a copy on a test machine and one under parallels on an intel Mac, 
but haven't had
time recently to do any testing.   I've had too many instances of fedora 
updates breaking
things to trust it with any data I'd consider worth indexing.  I don't 
mean to insult the
people working on the system because realistically it is isn't going to 
get testing until
they roll it out, but I don't like surprises.   Maybe a distro like 
fedora could be usable
for real work if the kernel went back to the model of putting wild and 
crazy changes
in an odd-numbered version that didn't automatically get pushed to 
everyone.
Meanwhile, I have to stick to something that keeps backwards 
compatibility during
updates.

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  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmaill.com