Re: Why is dedup inline, not delayed (as opposed to offline)? Explain like I'm five pls.
From: Brendan Hide <hidden>
Date: 2016-01-20 08:40:01
On 1/19/2016 2:28 PM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
That aside, it's probably worth noting that updatedb used by
{,m,s}locate only indexes metadata, and it does so a lot more
efficiently than most of the desktop search-engine indexers out there,
so it's not quite as bad as baloo or tracker or some of the other
options. Unlike those, updatedb pretty much just calls stat on
everything it's told to index, which takes time, but is not
particularly bad for your cache if you're just running it on your home
directory.Related Project Idea: Snapshot-aware updatedb/locate -> https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Project_ideas#Snapshot-aware_updatedb.2Flocate -- __________ Brendan Hide http://swiftspirit.co.za/ http://www.webafrica.co.za/?AFF1E97