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Re: findutils -- feature request for database with relative pathnames
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James Youngman |
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Re: findutils -- feature request for database with relative pathnames |
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Sat, 6 Sep 2008 23:00:55 +0100 |
On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Miloslav Trmač <address@hidden> wrote:
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> It might make sense to automatically look for a database on every
> mounted file system (assuming a specific relative path). I don't know
> whether it should be the default.
It probably should not, I would guess. Most people for now would not
be using a database of this type (since it is useful mainly for people
using clusters of machines), and requiring locate to look for such
databases would mean that locate would always fail on clients of
unresponsive NFS servers.