8.04 updatedb under the hood: how does it work? - thanks

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/9/20 Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore at gmx.de>:
> Am Samstag, 20. September 2008 15:17:57 schrieb Thilo Six:
>> Dexter Filmore wrote the following on 20.09.2008 15:14
>>
>> > Running "updatedb" used to be a matter of at least minutes in other
>> > distro, now 8.04 does it within the blink of an eye and noone's been able
>> > to tell me how it's done so far.
>> >
>> > Some enlighten me please?
>> >
>> > Dex
>>
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/mlocate
>>
>> HTH
>> --
>> bye Thilo
>>
>> key: 0x4A411E09
>
> Interesting. Any disadvantages here?
>

My first thought is do the noatime and nodiratime mount options affect it?

/ Jonas