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plocate, a Much Faster locate
- joshuanapoli 5y agoDoes creating the trigram index take long or use much space?
- mjw1007 5y agoIt takes 15s on my workstation and 5 minutes on a fileserver with about 17 million files (on a mix of fast and slow disks, and too old a kernel for io_uring). Database sizes are 30MB and 200MB respectively.
- eklitzke 5y agoI've been using this for a few months now, and it's targeted to replace mlocate in Fedora in the next Fedora release: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Plocate_as_the_default_locate_implementation https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Plocate_as_the_defaul... . I've been pretty happy with it, but I'll also add I never had any problems with mlocate.