Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3354 mails)

[Kai Ponte <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 29 March 2007 12:58:29 pm Joe Shaw wrote:
> Hey Patrick,
>
> On 3/29/07, Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is incorrect. There exists three goups.
> >
> > > (a) People who have no need or desire for Beagle.
> >
> >  [...]
> >
> > > (b) People who experience performance problems when running Beagle.
> >
> >  [...]
> >
> > (c) Those who use Beagle and like it and experienct no noticeable
> > system degradation.
>
> Indeed.  Thanks for that. :)
>
> > The only problem I see with Beagle is the amount of disk space
> > required for the indexes.  1.7G on my box, but I have a lot of disk
> > space and the cost is nothing like what my first 32MB hard drive was.
> > (I have two 8GB camera chips that combined cost less....)
>
> Yeah, I can't believe I ever had a machine with just a 20 meg hard
> drive myself.  Of course, I couldn't do a whole lot with it either. :)
>

Hey - 20 MB is "all you'll ever need" for a mere $2,000!

I was just thinking of this - wouldn't the meta-information be better suited 
to being put on the filesystem?

I remember back to the OS/2 days and HPFS. That filesystem - IIRC - had meta 
information for each file. I don't remember if it was indexed, but I thought 
that Windows and other filesystems were going to emulate this eventually.

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k
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