Re: [Tracker] Don't crawl directories after start

[Theo Wollenleben <alpha0x89 yahoo de>]

Am Samstag, 11. April 2009 17:53:46 schrieb Ivan Frade:
>  Tracker needs that initial crawling to know if something have change while
> tracker wasn't running and set the monitors on the folders. Take into
> account that tracker is just "crawling" and not reindexing the content of
> the files. It is just comparing the last-modification-date of the
> files/folders with the "index-time", so if there is no change, the files
> are not indexed/extracted/analyzed again.
>
>  There is no way to disable _only_ the crawling and keep the monitoring
> using options. You could still modify the code to adapt it to your
> requirements.

Does this mean the code can be changed such that monitoring without initial 
scan is possible? In the meantime I found 
[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502875], where Jamie McCracken 
claims that crawling is necessary and it is a flaw of inotify. Is that true? 
I used beagle for a while, which uses inotify to watch files without initial 
hammering of the disk.