On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if its possible to run updatedb on a very large > filesystem (6 TB). Has anyone done this before? I plan on running this > on a weekly basis, but I was wondering if updatedb was faster than a > simple 'find'. Are there any optimizations in 'updatedb' ?
With findutils you can update several parts of the directory tree in parallel, or update various parts on a different time schedule. Here's an example with three directory trees searched in parallel with one being searched remotely on another server and then combined with a canned list of files from a part of the filesystem that never changes. find /usr -print0 > /var/tmp/usr.files0 & find /var -print0 > /var/tmp/var.files0 & find /home -print0 > /var/tmp/home.files0 & ssh nfs-server 'find /srv -print0' > /var/tmp/srv.files0 & wait sort -f -z /var/tmp/archived-stuff.files.0 /var/tmp/usr.files0 /var/tmp/var.files0 /var/tmp/home.files0 /var/tmp/srv.files0 | /usr/lib/locate/frcode -0 > /var/tmp/locatedb.new rm -f /var/tmp/usr.files0 /var/tmp/var.files0 /var/tmp/home.files0 /var/tmp/srv.files0 cp /var/cache/locate/locatedb /var/cache/locate/locatedb.old mv /var/tmp/locatedb.new /var/cache/locate/locatedb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
