locate question
Greetings all;
I dunno if I've forgot how to use it, or it broken by the same bug that
killing me with the lagging access to my home raid10.
Fact: there are probably over 100 files in my /home/gene directory and
all its subs with assorted names ending in ".scad", made by OpenSCAD
Fact: I just ran "sudo updatedb" and generated a new date just now,
/var/cache/locate/locatedb.n
so that s/b uptodate.
Al of those files should be spit out by:
"locate *.scad" issued from an xfce terminal
but I get:
gene@coyote:~$ locate *.scad
/home/gene/vac_ctrl_box.scad
/home/gene/xhome_cable.scad
Acc an ls -R|wc -l there are
433179
files in my /home/gene directory
so locate isn't working as I think it should.
try find but it finds the whole my whole local net:
gene@coyote:~$ find .scad . |wc -l
find: ‘.scad’: No such file or directory
1176532
What am I doing wrong?
I put some more code into
Downloads/3dp-stf/vise-screws/master_vise_screw.scad in October, saving
it many times, but there is not a trace of that added code in it now.
Looking at that file with an ls -l the saved date seems correct,
-rw-r--r-- 1 gene gene 29069 Oct 24 11:36
Downloads/3dp.stf/vise-screw/master_vise_screw.scad
but the file itself is weeks, maybe a couple months old.
Its as if the file systems (ext4) cache is NOT being properly updated
and its updating the file dates but not the contents. I can probably
re-invent that wheel but its at least a days work.
I am also a heavy user of LinuxCNC, and its been forcing me to reload my
gcode after saving the modified file by useing the same open NEW file
procedure used to load a new file, the menu's reload entry gets me old
code, and so does the linuxcnc's axis gui's convenient reload button. I
gets old code from the cache But I must force a re-display of the file
list and select it by name in order to get the code I just edited.
If the name starts with a v its 2 minutes of scrolling thru the list to
get to it, very distracting from the train of thought when debugging the
g-code.
This is just one of many times this same basic problem has attacked me.
Is there a more dependable linux filesystem than ext4?
I can demo this behavior problem on at least 3 other amd64 machines on
my home net. I don't recall seeing it on my single armhf, and relatively
untested recent bookworm arm64 install. A test edit, adding a comment
at the end of the file, was successfully reloaded with the comment so I
don't believe the armhf or arm64 version has this problem.
Thanks all.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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