From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933456AbXG0TTr (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:19:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759980AbXG0TTk (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:19:40 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:49382 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758228AbXG0TTj (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:19:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:19:30 -0700 From: Paul Jackson To: Al Viro Cc: mingo@elte.hu, akpm@linux-foundation.org, frank@kingswood-consulting.co.uk, andi@firstfloor.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, ray-lk@madrabbit.org, jesper.juhl@gmail.com, ck@vds.kolivas.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23] Message-Id: <20070727121930.30779cad.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070726102025.GJ27237@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <46A57068.3070701@yahoo.com.au> <2c0942db0707232153j3670ef31kae3907dff1a24cb7@mail.gmail.com> <46A58B49.3050508@yahoo.com.au> <2c0942db0707240915h56e007e3l9110e24a065f2e73@mail.gmail.com> <46A6CC56.6040307@yahoo.com.au> <46A85D95.509@kingswood-consulting.co.uk> <20070726092025.GA9157@elte.hu> <20070726023401.f6a2fbdf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070726094024.GA15583@elte.hu> <20070726102025.GJ27237@ftp.linux.org.uk> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.3; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Al Viro wrote: > BTW, I really wonder how much pain could be avoided if updatedb recorded > mtime of directories and checked it. Someone mentioned a variant of slocate above that they called mlocate, and that Red Hat ships, that seems to do this (if I understand you and what mlocate does correctly.) -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.925.600.0401