From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 1 11:12:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA18776 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:12:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA18767 Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:12:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id LAA10426 ; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:12:20 -0800 Received: from caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.12]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA00949; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 20:43:16 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider Received: (from wosch@localhost) by caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.7.2/8.7.2) id UAA02307; Mon, 1 Apr 1996 20:43:08 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 20:43:08 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199604011843.UAA02307@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Terry Lambert Cc: mpp@freebsd.org, thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de, mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: locate In-Reply-To: <199604011814.LAA13813@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199604011710.TAA26870@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> <199604011814.LAA13813@phaeton.artisoft.com> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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