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From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make use of stat.ctime configurable
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:49:57 +0200
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Linus Torvalds, Mon, Jul 28, 2008 18:09:32 +0200:
> It really is just Beagle that is (was? I can dream) a piece of 
> unbelievable crap.
> 
> Anybody who uses extended attributes as part of a indexing scheme is just 
> insane. Modifying the file you are indexing is not just fundamentally 
> wrong to begin with, but it will then also be incredibly inefficient to 
> read those entries one at a time.
> 
> And no other sane model would ever touch 'ctime'.

Beagle is not alone. Google Desktop Search was mentioned before.

> Oh, well. Making ctime configurable is not wrong per se. But if it's 
> Beagle that triggers this, the fix is sadly in the wrong place.

Never said it was a fix. Same as CRLF conversion is not a feature.