The optimal solution of course would be an incremental database update - only change stuff that actually *does* change, and don't rescan all filesystems of which 99% are unchanged between updates. But what's missing there is a decent idea on how to make sure all filesystem changes are recognized by some updatedb daemon. There was some locate project a while ago which tried something like that: http://rlocate.sourceforge.net/ The related Ubuntu and Debian wishlist entries, mostly unnoticed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/123752 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448104
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #448104 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448104 -- updatedb should be weekly, not daily https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271272 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
