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Merge "Add note about updatedb to the docs"

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@ -1234,6 +1234,16 @@ the system. If your filesystem does not support `fallocate()` or
`posix_fallocate()`, be sure to set the `disable_fallocate = true` config
parameter in account, container, and object server configs.
Most current Linux distributions ship with a default installation of updatedb.
This tool runs periodically and updates the file name database that is used by
the GNU locate tool. However, including Swift object and container database
files is most likely not required and the periodic update affects the
performance quite a bit. To disable the inclusion of these files add the path
where Swift stores its data to the setting PRUNEPATHS in `/etc/updatedb.conf`::
PRUNEPATHS="... /tmp ... /var/spool ... /srv/node"
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