phantom files

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 08:28 -0700, Pastor JW wrote:

> On this question, why are there two separate databases used or if there are, 
> why when one removes something from one, isn't the other one updated to 
> reflect the change since they are holding the same file information.  Tracker 
> seems to get massive so I'd suspect there are bugs to work out there yet.   

Tracker indexes file content while locate just keeps track of files.
IIRC locate was a hack to speed up "find / -print.  In a perfect world
you probably should merge the two systems, although tracker seems a bit
heavy for just keeping track of pathnames.
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