On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Johannes Wiedersich <johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> wrote: > Several implementations of locate exist: the original implementation > from GNU's findutils, slocate, and mlocate. The advantages of mlocate are: > > * it indexes all the filesystem, but results of a search will only > include files that the user running locate has access to. It does this > by updating the database as root, but making it unreadable for normal > users, who can only access it via the locate binary. slocate does this > as well, but not the original locate.
Actually, it does have exactly that feature. > * instead of re-reading all the contents of all directories each time > the database is updated, mlocate keeps timestamp information in its > database and can know if the contents of a directory changed without > reading them again. This makes updates much faster and less demanding on > the hard drive. This feature is only found in mlocate. Indeed. James. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
