[Discuss] File Systems vs.Databases Was: Re: SSH options (was Future of X11 (was Trying to connect to internet in Debian))

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

Kent Borg wrote: 
> On 1/23/26 6:50 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > plocate (successor to mlocate, locate, etc...) builds a database
> > of every file in your system, so that you can query it when you
> > don't know where a file is in the tree.
> 
> I haven't gotten around to debugging why, when I type "locate foo", it will
> miss stuff I know is there. (I blame systemd, always seems a good first
> approximation.)


First place to look: how recently was updatedb run by cron or a
systemd timer? Does the timestamp on the db file correspond?

-dsr-