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What Desktop Search Engine For a Shared Volume?

Posted by timothy on from the which-side-of-the-firewall dept.

kriston writes 'Searching data on a shared volume is tedious. If I try to use a Windows desktop search engine on a volume with hundreds of gigabytes the indexing process takes days and the search results are slow and unsatisfying. I'm thinking of an agent that runs on the server that regularly indexes and talks to the desktop machines running the search interface. How do you integrate your desktop search application with your remote file server without forcing each desktop to index the hundred gigabyte volume on its own?'

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  1. Call the NSA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They already have it indexed for you.

  2. wow! by tivoKlr · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's been an hour since this story was posted.

    You've stumped Slashdot. Bravo!

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  3. Mirror it. by palegray.net · · Score: 4, Funny

    You could just rsync the shared volume to a local drive as frequently as needed and run the search engine on the local copy.

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  4. Re:A couple of options by cyber-dragon.net · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are on /. and actually recommending an upgrade to Vista?
    Brave man.