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Re: updatedb for very large filesystems



Great. Thanks. Basically I have 500+ directories; each directory which
has over 9000 files. I was wondering if there is a trick I can use.

TIA


On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:29 AM, 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.
>
> James.
>
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