Shi-Ying Irene Huang wrote:
> Ubuntu bundles tracker as its default desktop search tool,
> and Suse bundles beagle as its default desktop search tool.
> Meta Tracker needs to be integrated into Solaris also since
> there is not desktop search tool.
So why are we choosing tracker and not beagle ? I wouldn't hold up the
case for the answer but I'd like to know since I'd heard of beagle
before but not tracker.
> 4. Technical Description:
> 4.1. Details:
>
> Meta Tracker's key features includes:
> * Extracts file contents as plain text and indexes them.
> * Extracts Meta data from file also, for example,
> Artist/Title from one mp3 file
> * Responds in real time to file system changes,
> automatically keeping its meta data database up to date.
How does it do that on Solaris ?
* What is the performance impact of doing this ?
* What is the impact on disks spinning down and cpu's clocking down by
adding this ?
I'm asking this because I've had bad experiences with spotlight
on MacOS X keeping disks spinning sometimes.
* Does this work if the users home directory is NFS mounted ?
* Does it cross filesystem boundaries below the users home dir ?
* If the users home dir (or subdirs below it) are ZFS datasets that
have the ZFS snapdir visible will this index the snapshot dirs too ?
Will it be confused by that or provide confusing output to users ?
* Where does it store the, potentially highly sensitive, information ?
* How does this work with Trusted Extensions ? for example will there
be a trackerd running per label ?
* Can it be configured to only index certain file types, for example
do my ascii text and OpenDocument files but don't touch my C code.
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Darren J Moffat
