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Not The Unix Way?Not The Unix Way?Posted Jul 7, 2007 0:33 UTC (Sat) by Richard_J_Neill (subscriber, #23093)In reply to: Not The Unix Way? by MathFox Parent article: Mandriva adds a semantic layer to the KDE 4 desktop
You're right about the problems. But I think that the semantic database has got to cope gracefully with editing/renaming/moving of the files, even when they are moved off the computer entirely, and the database loses sync.
Because this is such a hard problem to solve, I'd prefer to do without the semantic stuff, rather than sacrifice the ability to use the unix-shell commands (or risk losing the integrity of the database). [inotify may help a bit here].
Lastly, files which don't have metadata are usually simpler formats such as .txt and emails. So the problem isn't that bad. Anyway, we have grep, and locate (so what more could one ask for?!)
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