phantom files

[Derek Broughton]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:

> 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.

Well, I've always kept tracker turned off - can't handle the overhead - so
it would really affect me if locate was merged into it :-)
-- 
derek