updatedb for very large filesystems

To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: updatedb for very large filesystems
From: "Mag Gam" <magawake@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 07:15:21 -0400
Message-id: <[🔎] 1cbd6f830810010415q19bc4bb0ybe005b145c3373@mail.gmail.com>

I was wondering if its possible to run updatedb on a very large
filesystem (6 TB). Has anyone done this before? I plan on running this
on a weekly basis, but I was wondering if updatedb was faster than a
simple 'find'. Are there any optimizations in 'updatedb' ?

TIA

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