jeffrey@icurse.nl Jeffrey Lin arsen@gentoo.org Arsen Arsenović flow@gentoo.org Florian Schmaus sam@gentoo.org Sam James proxy-maint@gentoo.org Proxy Maintainers Enable efficient I/O via sys-libs/liburing. plocate works by creating an inverted index over trigrams (combinations of three bytes) in the search strings, which allows it to rapidly narrow down the set of candidates to a very small list, instead of linearly scanning through every entry. It does nearly all I/O asynchronously using io_uring if available (Linux 5.1+), which reduces the impact of seek latency on systems without SSDs. Like mlocate and slocate, the returned file set is user-dependent, ie. a user will only see a file if find(1) would list it (all directories from the root have +rx permissions).