Re: Nautilus/Medusa search index enhancements

["Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm usm edu ec>]

> 	Did you consider the space implications of indexing a potentially
> limitless 'net space' on a very finite local hard-disk - and the
> scalability issues of having every single client re-indexing the whole
> network and/or the security implications of the IPC necessary to do
> intra-machine authentication / index querying ? and the scale of the
> work to make that happen ?
Sorry.  You didn't understand the proposal *at all*.
1. The proposal is to have NO machine index any NFS servers.  Au 
contraire, the search daemon would relay any search queries to Medusas 
running on remote NFS machines.  Which NFS machines?  The ones currently 
mounted, of course!
2. Security implications?  AFAIK, if you're running a NFS network, 
you're trusting each client on their UIDs, so it's a pretty safe bet 
that you can use identd to identify the user who searched.
3. The scale of work isn't big.  It's just a couple if's and a way to 
accept remote connections.  Well, I'm an optimist, typical for software 
developers.

> 	I suspect that the (sensible) limitation of making this per-user, in
> order to get _something_ that works nicely, soon, out there is likely to
> result in a working deployed tool that can be used by real users for a
> very useful sub-set of your big vision. 
Evidently, it's a good purpose.  But for networks it will cause problems 
when it starts indexing files in NFS servers.