Re: updatedb for very large filesystems
Thanks Sven. Is it possible to get file user owner and file size with
the mlocate/updatedb ?
I would like to get granular reports like that...
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 2008-10-01 13:15 +0200, Mag Gam wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if its possible to run updatedb on a very large
>> filesystem (6 TB). Has anyone done this before?
>
> I don't have such luxurious filesystems, but it should certainly be
> possible. It's just a matter of time (the number of files is what
> really counts, not the size of the filesystem).
>
>> 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' ?
>
> The implementation of updatedb mlocate package has an important
> optimization, it reuses old entries for directories whose mtime didn't
> change since the last run. So the second and subsequent runs should be
> considerably faster than the first. Note, however, that mlocate is not
> available in Etch.
>
> The findutils version may be too slow to be run on a weekly basis on
> systems with many millions of files.
>
> Sven
>
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