Re: [OT] inotify hack for locate

Jon Masters
2006-03-06T13:12:37Z

On 3/6/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 21:36 +0000, Jon Masters wrote:

> > I'm fed up with those finds running whenever I power on. Has anyone
> > written an equivalent of the Microsoft indexing service to update
> > locate's database?

> there is both rlocate and mlocate to replace whatever variant of locate
> you are using.

Interesting.

> But this is obviously offtopic for lkml

Not entirely - because I'm asking about VFS functionality. I'm going
to look at the rlocate kernel module with a view to doing something
generic that communicates over netlink like I want. Thanks.

Jon.