Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:47:47 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz> To: George Vagner <vagner@spdc.ti.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Softupdates Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980511124643.18401A-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <199805090841.DAA01247@epcot.spdc.ti.com>
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On Sat, 9 May 1998, George Vagner wrote:
> while we are on filesystems....
>
> why is is that win95 can search a 5 gig drive in ~10 seconds and it takes
> FreeBSD 10 minutes to do a find?
>
> how can I speed FreeBSD up on this file find thing?
win95 uses a cache file. FreeBSD can also do this by using locate(1).
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
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