Request - Disk Catalog and file search


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I've seen a few plugins/scripts (like cache_dirs) that do parts but I don't know of anything that integrates everything. This would be builtin feature of plugin with a GUI that -

 

- automatically catalogs all file names and attributes, with their disk locations, in real time

- keep history so you could view the evolution of your storage, do comparisons etc. 

- provide useful stats

- maintain a full index with incremental search as you type

- provide hooks to enable other parts of the system and other plugins to use this data

 

I think for a NAS this would be quite useful and will have a number of uses. I also don't think it should be that hard since all writes have to go thru a single API which determines the actual disk/location and this could be used to update this database. Same for Mover, cache pool etc.

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