On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Jerry Tan <Jerry.Tan at sun.com> wrote:
> Peter Tribble wrote:
>>>  Meta Tracker searches files' contents and meta data.
>>
>> Does it follow symbolic links?
>
> yes, tracker will index it.

Ouch. An accidental symlink and I try and index several hundred
million files :-(

I hope this can be configured.

>>>  Tracker daemon will be started with gnome-session.
>>>  User can run gnome-session-properties to enable/disable it.
>>
>> Is it enabled or disabled by default?
>
> The community's version (tarball version 0.6.6 ) enable it  by default.
> So when gnome-session start, trackerd will be started .
> we can disable it in sun's pkg if needed.

Again, I hope this can be configured.

And in both cases, I hope it can be configured globally by an administrator.

(It's the combinations of the two that will be absolutely lethal.)

-- 
-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/

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