Baloo and remote file systems

[Rainer Dorsch]

Hi David,

thank for your answer.

On Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2018 10:35:52 CEST David Kahles wrote:
> Hi Rainer,
> 
> > I assume it relies on inotify or something similar to
> > avoid periodic full scans.
> 
> I don't know enough about Baloo to answer your questions, but Baloo relies
> not only on inotify, but additionally on LMDB (lightning memory-mapped
> database).
> > Can anybody tell if it is possible to run baloo on a remote file system,
> > also running a baloo client on the file server would be possible.
> 
> I think both, inoitfy and LMDB, don't work on NFS, so i think this is
> impossible.

That is what I expected. I was hoping though that I could create on the file 
server a "baloo database" for the data there and include that server "baloo 
database" in my local searches....

Any other idea on how to index documents on a file server? Even if I need to 
search cmdline based?

Thanks
Rainer



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