Re: [Tracker] Indexing folders using tracker

[Ivan Frade <ivan frade gmail com>]

Hi Octavio,

 Tracker will take some time and space. It will handle it fine if it
doesn't hit the inotify limit in the kernel (you need 1 inotify entry
per folder and starting in / you can get a lot of folders!).

 The question is if you really want to do it. It will populate your
database (therefore your query results) with lots of files that
probably are not relevant. Do you need to see in your search results
/usr/lib/xyz.so? or any single .h installed in your system? If you are
interested in those files, probably you would like to search in the
contents... and there are no extractor modules for them, so again not
very useful.

 The goal of Tracker is to index the user personal information.
Indexing / means adding the system information. Although can be done,
I wouldn't recommend it.

 Regards,

Ivan

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Octavio Bernal Quiroz
<poisonman_1 hotmail com> wrote:
> Hi guys, I installed Opensuse 12.2 with xfce and I'm using Tracker to search
> files, by default in Opensuse tracker is only searching files in home
> subfolders. I would like to ask you if is a bad idea to allow tracker to
> index the entire disk, I mean everything under root "/"? I never used
> Tracker before and I don't know about the performance or the amount of disk
> space that this operation will take.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
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