Re: updatedb for very large filesystems
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:29 PM, James Youngman <jay@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>> Since find is so disk-intensive, isn't this is only of benefit if /usr, /var
>> and /home are on different devices?
>
> Yes. Disk-head-movement optimisation will not be implemented in
> findutils for another six weeks or so.
Done; the relevant change is described at
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/findutils/ChangeLog?root=findutils&r1=1.342&r2=1.343
James.
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