From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765646AbXGYU4i (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:56:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757034AbXGYU43 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:56:29 -0400 Received: from threatwall.zlynx.org ([199.45.143.218]:33497 "EHLO zlynx.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756633AbXGYU42 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:56:28 -0400 Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23 From: Zan Lynx To: Ray Lee Cc: Rene Herman , david@lang.hm, Nick Piggin , Jesper Juhl , Andrew Morton , ck list , Ingo Molnar , Paul Jackson , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0707250902v58e23d52v434bde82ba28f119@mail.gmail.com> References: <20070710013152.ef2cd200.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <9a8748490707231608h453eefffx68b9c391897aba70@mail.gmail.com> <46A57068.3070701@yahoo.com.au> <2c0942db0707232153j3670ef31kae3907dff1a24cb7@mail.gmail.com> <46A58B49.3050508@yahoo.com.au> <2c0942db0707240915h56e007e3l9110e24a065f2e73@mail.gmail.com> <46A6CC56.6040307@yahoo.com.au> <46A6D7D2.4050708@gmail.com> <46A6DFFD.9030202@gmail.com> <2c0942db0707250902v58e23d52v434bde82ba28f119@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-8t7OLuTHXOm7C9A/1nAi" Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:55:52 -0600 Message-Id: <1185396952.9409.5.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.2 X-Envelope-From: zlynx@acm.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-8t7OLuTHXOm7C9A/1nAi Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 09:02 -0700, Ray Lee wrote: > I'd just like updatedb to amortize its work better. If we had some way > to track all filesystem events, updatedb could keep a live and > accurate index on the filesystem. And this isn't just updatedb that > wants that, beagle and tracker et al also want to know filesystem > events so that they can index the documents themselves as well as the > metadata. And if they do it live, that spreads the cost out, including > the VM pressure. That would be nice. It'd be great if there was a per-filesystem inotify mode. I can't help but think it'd be more efficient than recursing every directory and adding a watch. Or maybe a netlink thing that could buffer events since filesystem mount until a daemon could get around to starting, so none were lost. --=20 Zan Lynx --=-8t7OLuTHXOm7C9A/1nAi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGp7jYG8fHaOLTWwgRAmlUAKCTYKtHNLlZ5yFhwfMLfSi3fwlCGgCfRiJU gYhwq7xebt1RqkKnoOdxMXM= =5QnM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-8t7OLuTHXOm7C9A/1nAi--