On 7/24/07, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, but what's locate's usage scenario? I've never, ever wanted to use it. When do you know the name of something but not where it's located, other than situations which "which" wouldn't cover and after just having installed/unpacked something meaning locate doesn't know about it yet either?
I use it to find source files and documents all the time. One of my work boxes has <runs a locate work | wc -l> ~38500 files and directories under my source directory. And then there's the "I wrote that tech doc two years ago, where was that. Hmm, what did I name it? Bet it had 323 in the name, and doc in the path." I'd just like updatedb to amortize its work better. If we had some way to track all filesystem events, updatedb could keep a live and accurate index on the filesystem. And this isn't just updatedb that wants that, beagle and tracker et al also want to know filesystem events so that they can index the documents themselves as well as the metadata. And if they do it live, that spreads the cost out, including the VM pressure. Ray - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
