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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 1996 20:43:08 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        mpp@freebsd.org, thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: locate
Message-ID:  <199604011843.UAA02307@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604011814.LAA13813@phaeton.artisoft.com>
References:  <199604011710.TAA26870@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> <199604011814.LAA13813@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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Terry Lambert writes:
>> >You guys didn't read my whole mail message.  I also stated
>> >that if the database were to contain a list of all files,
>> >then locate would also be changed to verify that any
>> >files it prints out are accessible by the user running locate.
>> 
>> This kill NFS in worst case. Just type ``locate / | wc'' 
>> My database has 2.5 millions file names (and 168 NFS mount points)
>
>Holy crap!  You are mounting 168 other boxes via NFS onto a
>FreeBSD box?!?!

No, it's large SunOS based network, 65 different NFS server. No single
FreeBSD box ;-( I use the FreeBSD sources for locate.

Wolfram



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