Rewrite updatedb + locate with fd?

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Rewrite updatedb + locate with fd? #1573

Open ylluminate opened 5 months ago

ylluminate commented 5 months ago

Due to incredible speed increase compared to find, has anyone considered rewriting the updatedb system for locate with fd? It seems that it would be incredibly more effective for system indexing - especially for large filesystems with many small files.

iwconfig commented 5 months ago

Are you aware of plocate?

https://plocate.sesse.net

nisbet-hubbard commented 4 weeks ago

The much faster plocate is now the default locate on Debian and Fedora. Only that it’ll still take some time to reach other (mainly downstream) distros.

I suppose this issue can be closed?