> Once the diskcache got the files cached, a full mame scan takes less than 7
> seconds. And even for indexing you have to read them once (and the scanner
> accesses the files only once anyway). As long as the name of the set is already
> correct, it's a direct file access. So there is no need for an index and you got
> no real benefit from it.
> Since you need to reread the files anyway (because something could have been
> changed), the scanner has to reaccess the sets anyway. The rebuilder is
> filebased and so an indexing mechanism isn't needed since it works the other way
> around. It reads a file, matches the hashvalue and recreates the file in the
> destination.
>
>
> Roman Scherzer
>

you've cleared up some things, thank you.