On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 07:48 -0800, Steven Anderson wrote: > Dear Debian Users: > > I wonder wether there is any projects under way to > give Linux the same type of searching and indexing > features that are going to be availbable with Windows > Longhorn and Mac OS 10.4? I understand that there is > a db...somthing command that will index the hard drive > now which i ran across some time ago. Unfortunately it > did not seem to work when I issued the command > although it ran somthing all night long. Anyone know > what command this is since I cant seem to find it > again. Also anyone know of any indexing projects? The command that you're probably thinking of is updatedb (which has been around for years). See the other posts for more info. (Coincidentally the NT line of Windows has had this since W2K, and possibly earlier.) What it sounds like you're referring to with the mention of Longhorn and OS 10.4, however, is some of the meta-data functionality that they're working on building in. So that a file would not only have a name and a date associated with it, but user-defined meta-data as well. Then you could just do a search for all of your "family documents" for example, and you'd get a listing of all files which match that description, regardless of the filename and location. This is essentially what's being worked on for ReiserFS 4. Personally, I believe that the first fully-usable implementation of this concept that we'll see will be on a Linux system running ReiserFS 4. M$ and Apple will come out with their little variations on the theme later. (Actually, for all I know this might already be somewhat usable in Linux. I haven't been keeping up with Reiser4 news recently.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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