8.04 updatedb under the hood: how does it work?

09-20-2008, 01:14 PM

Running "updatedb" used to be a matter of at least minutes in other distro,
now 8.04 does it within the blink of an eye and noone's been able to tell me
how it's done so far.

Some enlighten me please?

Dex

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09-20-2008, 01:17 PM

Dexter Filmore wrote the following on 20.09.2008 15:14

> Running "updatedb" used to be a matter of at least minutes in other distro,
> now 8.04 does it within the blink of an eye and noone's been able to tell me
> how it's done so far.
>
> Some enlighten me please?
>
> Dex

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/mlocate

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