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Rewrite updatedb + locate with fd?

Open ylluminate opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Due to incredible speed increase compared to find, has anyone considered rewriting the updatedb system for locate with fd? It seems that it would be incredibly more effective for system indexing - especially for large filesystems with many small files.

ylluminate avatar Jun 12 '24 07:06 ylluminate

Are you aware of plocate?

https://plocate.sesse.net

iwconfig avatar Jun 19 '24 13:06 iwconfig

The much faster plocate is now the default locate on Debian and Fedora. Only that it’ll still take some time to reach other (mainly downstream) distros.

I suppose this issue can be closed?

nisbet-hubbard avatar Oct 26 '24 07:10 nisbet-hubbard