Have you actually read what I'm proposing to change, or are you just deciding to make a snap, steadfast decision just to feel better about weighing in on a topic? There's consistently a staunch attitude of "this way or the highway" on the forums and frankly, it's tiring.
This is what I believe to be a cron job, that's (to my knowledge) enabled as per standard on most linux builds. I'm willing to take the risk or running a feature which has been in for I'd say at least a decade.
And do you know why we give that advice despite it being tiring? Because it's the way FreeNAS was designed. PERIOD. It doesn't matter if you don't like it, that's the god honest truth.
Well then... welcome to FreeBSD, where FreeBSD ≠ Linux.
Infact I know it doesn't screw things up because I've enabled it on my server for several weeks, it works fine, it just gets lost on a reboot...... hence me wanting to hard set the single line change to keep it running.
Then go and do it already! Why are you sitting here moping around and caring what we think if you've already tested the setting and are fine with the results?
You really haven't actually read what I'm asking for, have you? .... Seriously? Are you just replying for the sake of it, or do you actually know what I'd like a hand with?
Yeah, you want to run locate and updatedb on a weekly basis. Just set up a cronjob to do whatever you need it to do at whatever times, I'm failing to see the issue here? If you want this to be an option in FreeNAS than make a feature request, otherwise you'll just have to set it up to do so manually.
Just not to be discarded at reboot.Edit /etc/periodic.conf and set weekly_locate_enable="YES" (the last line in the file). This will schedule weekly update of the locate database. After you do the edit you can also trigger immediate update of the database by running /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate
Ok good, I know how to make it work weekly.
I don't want a fundamental change by the developers for this, I get that most people don't care.
All I want is me not having to edit a file on reboot, so it does this as per normal.
It literally is as simple as this.
Just not to be discarded at reboot.
find . -name '*.cue'
This would be a nice feature request, no? Add a checkbox to let FreeNAS update a daily/weekly locate database on the system dataset.
This would be a nice feature request, no? Add a checkbox to let FreeNAS update a daily/weekly locate database on the system dataset.
It was already rejected before. But its trivial to setup with a cronjob in the WebGUI for those interested. I've seen some servers that are so big that they can't do an update to the database in less than 3 hours. So while it might "sound great" you have to consider the consequences when you scale up to massive scales (which is *exactly* what ZFS was designed for). ZFS really was designed for massively large servers. It doesn't scale down to "home user" size as well, which is where most of us hang out.