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/
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