Filesystem-local databases in mlocate

[Bernardo Innocenti]

Tomas Janousek wrote:

> Well the original poster had something like NFS over the globe in mind, but
> mentioned wifi because 1) it's more common and 2) nobody would say I'm crazy.

Back when the web was still a new idea, wuarchive.wustl.edu used to run
a public NFS share to access its huge Amiga software collection.

Mounting that over an analog modem link and saying: "Finally, I can
get rid of the ftp client"... *that* would be crazy!

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