>you run updatedb manually all the time and weep because that's not something instant, at all. No, not instant, YMMV. On my mid-range laptop with SATA SSD:

>you run updatedb manually all the time and weep because that's not something instant, at all. No, not instant, YMMV. On my mid-range laptop with SATA SSD: $ time sudo updatedb real 0m0.501s user 0m0.247s sys 0m0.218s