Re: findutils -- feature request for database with relative pathnames

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, James Youngman wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Miloslav Trma? <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 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.

It could actually be worse, causing highly unpleasant timeouts.
I'd say definitely not.

regards

Peter Breitenlohner <address@hidden>