James Andrewartha wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 04:38 +0800, Jim Li wrote: > >> James Andrewartha wrote: >> >>> Jim Li wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi Takao, >>>> >>>> slocate is going to be integrated into Solaris as part of OpenSolaris >>>> 2008.11. Could you please do L10N/I18N evaluation on it? >>>> >>> Why slocate instead of mlocate? >>> >>> >> We have a process to determine a prioritized list of packages for the >> OpenSolaris 2008.11. slocate is in this list but not mlocate. If you >> have any opinion, raise your hands and welcome your great suggestion and >> comments about that. >> > > mlocate is a faster replacement for slocate, and has been adopted by > most Linux distributions. From its webpage [1]: > > "mlocate is a new locate implementation. The ?m? stands for ?merging?: > updatedb reuses the existing database to avoid rereading most of the > file system, which makes updatedb faster and does not trash the system > caches as much. > > The locate(1) utility is intended to be completely compatible to > slocate. It also attempts to be compatible to GNU locate, when it does > not conflict with slocate compatibility." > That's very interesting, I'll keep my eyes on this.
Thanks for your information! Jim > James Andrewartha > > [1] http://carolina.mff.cuni.cz/~trmac/blog/mlocate/ > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
