On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 5:29 PM Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > I believe a good, fast locate is something that we should have in our base > install; it is fine to keep it out of the cloud image (as today), but it is > genuinely useful for both desktops and servers, and with a low cost.
I support having locate in the base install, but I don't think that the cost of daily walking the entire filesystem is low; especially with HDDs and older storage or computers that can be a lot of I/O. I guess it also alters the Linux kernel block/filesystem caches? A daemon monitoring filesystem changes using fanotify or similar and then updating the database on a configured schedule would mitigate this cost, but I guess would be harder to implement. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
