>>>>> "Edward" == Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> writes:
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of John Stoffel >> >> My personal feeling is that you should just move up a few levels and >> search down from there, and not spend time searching all over the >> filesystem for something, since I would assume (and we all know what Edward> More likely: Scrap the search idea. Note in the man page, Edward> "Due to present limitations of the filesystem, zhist can only Edward> find snapshots for objects for which the pathname and filename Edward> have not changed. For more information, including Edward> instructions to perform an exhaustive search, see http://...."; It's a hard hard problem I agree. As disks get larger, and people get more forgetful, it's not easy to keep up with indexing stuff. Esp if the performance hit is too high and impacts the user's experience. Edward> The result really needs to be returned instantly. I can't Edward> afford to search around random unknown directories of unknown Edward> sizes. And the assumption that "most moves are relatively Edward> local" is of course, user behavior driven. It's funny you Edward> should mention, because just 30 minutes ago, I got an email Edward> from a user saying "I downloaded this tool, can you please Edward> install it" so I moved it from her home directory to the Edward> "standard download area" for installers, and ran it. Heh. I like it. Modeling user behavior is all about the exceptions, right? And we all know how well computers handle exceptions they don't expect. Humans are much more tolerant. Maybe the idea of a decaying history of filesystem activities would be usefull? You generally (there I go again, generalizing!) look for stuff you handled recently. Except when you're digging through your piles looking for something you touched "about two years ago... I think" looking for something. I dunno... I haven't put alot of thought into this really beyond the initial question, which we've drifted away from a bit. John _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
