On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 19:52 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 22:04 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Are you saying every user needs his own instance and each will index > > all files accessible by that that user? That doesn't sound very > > efficient for a multiuser system. > > Hmm, dunno about that, unless you're hoping for some compression > efficiencies in the cataloging. If you had three users which end up > with 1 megs worth of catalogs each, versus three users which each put 1 > meg into a global catalog, you're still using 3 megs worth of disk > space. Though, you mightn't want several indexing processes running all > the time, unless they really had a minimal load on the system. ---- I suppose if you were using a supported version of fedora, you would have beagle installed and you could post informatively rather than speculating on things you haven't looked at. Craig