Mike Meyer wrote: > On a completely different topic, this looks like the wrong way to solve > the problem. You want to update a search engine based on changes to the > underlying file system. The right way to do this isn't to just keep > rescanning the file system, it's to arrange things so that your scanner > gets notified of any changes made to the file system. I did something like > this for my web site search engine, but that's hooked into the SCM that's > used for propogating changes to the web site. I know someone is working > on patches to the FreeBSD kernel to make this kind of thing work. It would > seem that some of the "backup" facilities that worked by keeping a mirror > of the disk on separate media would have to have used such hooks, but maybe > not.
I think you're right that filesystem change notification is what Carlos needs. If you're interested in using Linux, Carlos, "inotify" is a new kernel module that can notify your program of filesystem changes. It's not folded into the mainline kernel yet, but it's a clean patch. http://www.edoceo.com/creo/inotify/ I don't know if Windows has anything like it. I'd be interested to hear if it does. Shane -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
