On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 at 10:10am, Robert Kearey wrote > It seems that the setup I've inherited has no indexing enabled, and > I'm at a loss to understand why given the advantages. Is there some > compelling reason to have indexing off? Can I just turn it on?
Not really. Yes. About the only consideration would be disk space. The indexdir for my Daily config (which has about 50 disklist entries) takes up ~110MB. So just make sure you have that much space in the partition in which the indexdir resides. > We have a 7 tape dds4 autoloader, running on Red Hat 7.0. Hmmm, redhat.com address and running a version *two* releases old -- I wonder what message that sends... ;) (7.1 here, btw) -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
