Is Spotlight a filesystem-level addition or a userland process that indexes files as they change? If it's the latter, I'm not so sure it's worth it for my organized self...
jhujhiti said:Is Spotlight a filesystem-level addition or a userland process that indexes files as they change? If it's the latter, I'm not so sure it's worth it for my organized self...
I'm not sure how you read that out of the person's answer.jhujhiti said:So it's slow, but easily disabled. Excellent.
Ahh, but we don't really know where it's built into. And truthfully, it being external to the filesystem drivers would be a good thing.jhujhiti said:By slow, I meant it's slower than it "could be." If it were in-kernel or even built into the filesystem (the way ext3 is ext2 with journalling added), it would be much faster.
jhujhiti said:By slow, I meant it's slower than it "could be." If it were in-kernel or even built into the filesystem (the way ext3 is ext2 with journalling added), it would be much faster.