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Re: 9.4 Linux: no locate database rebuild?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed May 11 14:00:17 2005
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: alexp@mit.edu, testers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 May 2005 13:20:44 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 13:53:50 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
>> Well, to me it's pretty useful- especially since I store lots of things locally
>> that I need to find again.
>I'm surprised that "find" isn't fast enough for that.
In some cases I have huge trees with many thousands of small files-
the time difference is significant there- and I usually have to type more
when I do a "find".
>> I'm wondering why you find it annoying?
>Because sometimes I'm up and working while the database rebuild happens,
>and it slows the machine down a lot.
Can't argue with that- I'm usually not. But I can live without it, if
more people find it annoying than useful.
A.
