Re: [Tracker] Feedback for 0.5.0

[tobutaz gmail com]

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> tracker will still crawl through to get the directories to watch every
> time you start up and until we have a better kernel system for mass
> watching of files thats as good as it can get.

I had researched how to do that some time ago;
There is such a thing in the form of rlocate:
http://rlocate.sourceforge.net/

This provides the ability to watch any change in the entire filesystem.
It also provides a daemon and an up-to-date locate command.

It is basically an out-of-tree kernel module using the LSM hooks.
Integration pros:
no need to recompile the kernel,
Integration cons:
must be relinked when the kernel is updated
conflicts with SElinux and other LSM-using modules.

Cheers,
Gabriel de Perthuis