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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: locate
To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider)
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:14:46 -0700 (MST)
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> >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?!?!

This has got to be some kind of record.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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