With Nutch you can crawl your FS with ease and index to a Solr instance. It'll surely work. But you may also be interested in the cool KDE technologies that are specifically built for desktop search.
http://thomasmcguire.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/akonadi-nepomuk-and-strigi- explained/ On Monday 15 August 2011 04:41:11 Andrew Naylor wrote: > Any suggestions for the best way to get desktop search in the > Lucene/Solr/Nutch/Tika ecosystem? I want to be able to access (from my own > program) lists of terms that are indexed and weights for each file, for > example, but if a filesystem indexer and index updater already exists > somewhere I'd like to use it rather than write my own. > > I'm planning on working in Clojure, btw, not that that should make any > difference--- > > Thanks, > > Andrew -- Markus Jelsma - CTO - Openindex http://www.linkedin.com/in/markus17 050-8536620 / 06-50258350

