IntraNetBrowser

Introduction

By Nathan Brown - nathanbrown _@_ letu.edu

This is a combination of a program that runs on a server and builds a file database out of all the available files on a network. The second program is a explorer like search program that downloads the database file and searches it for matches.

Currently on my campus network, there are around over 440,000 files totaling 1,170 GB on over 300 computers in the database. Searches are extreamly fast, even with sub-string searching of the entire path string. I am extreamly happy with Metakit's performance in this application.

For more information visit my project site at http://www.sputnickonline.com/projects/programs/IntranetBrowser/

Comments

• The current Database of files includes some 30 000 directories (which are implemented as subviews) and 500,000 files.
• The current Database size is 20 MB.
• The record size per file comes out to about 37 bytes per file. This is very good for files with a wide range of lengths. The record also includes date and time.
• I tried to implement the e4_Graph for easier updating/deletion and found that it is extremely inefficient. A dataset that was 4 MB exploded into 50 MB.
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