> Everything scans the filesystem very fast and there is no way it is just using 'stat' on every file then diving into the directories.
The last time I checked, Everything worked by using the AV calls microsoft provides; anytime a file is written, the name (and other metadata) can be written to a log that Everything can check once every 5 seconds or so.
If I thought there was any money at all to be made from providing an Everything equivalent[1] on Linux, I'd spend the week or so to write it, but as far as I can tell there's just no market for something like this.
[1] By that I mean "similar in performance and query capabilities"; I would obviously need more time than that to hook into the common file-open dialog widgets (Gnome/KDE/etc) so that users could run their queries straight from existing file dialog widgets.
The last time I checked, Everything worked by using the AV calls microsoft provides; anytime a file is written, the name (and other metadata) can be written to a log that Everything can check once every 5 seconds or so.
If I thought there was any money at all to be made from providing an Everything equivalent[1] on Linux, I'd spend the week or so to write it, but as far as I can tell there's just no market for something like this.
[1] By that I mean "similar in performance and query capabilities"; I would obviously need more time than that to hook into the common file-open dialog widgets (Gnome/KDE/etc) so that users could run their queries straight from existing file dialog widgets.