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[Paul Mahon <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

Sorcery doesn't use locate, it generally uses find... if you were asking
why sorcery uses it.
If you were asking the more general question, "Why use locate?" Here's
why:
Updatedb can be scheduled to run at a time when you're not using the
computer (5am on Sundays is usually good for me), this keeps the db up
to date, and locating a file takes a fraction of a second. It takes
about as long to do an updatedb as it takes to do a 'find /' and with
locate you can do multiple lookups without having to search the whole HD
each time.

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 10:23 -0400, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> But why use locate?  I never run updatedb and after awhile the db gets 
> horribly out of synch.  Updatedb also takes a ridiculous amount of time 
> to run.  What is locate doing in sorcery?  Why not use find?
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> 
> Paul Mahon wrote:
> > locate is provided by findutils, which is still part of the base system.
> > You will need to run updatedb at least once as root to create the
> > locatedb file. I don't think it runs it automaticaly, and I don't think
> > it sets up a cron job to do it either.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 09:15 -0500, sergey AT optimaltec.com wrote:
> > 
> >>It looks like the latest devel sorcery is using `locate.' I can see the 
> >>messages
> >>that /var/cache/locatedb is missing. I don't think locate is part of the
> >>basesystem. Any reason for this?
> >>Thanks!
> >>
> >>Sergey.
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