updatedb -f nfs does the trick, but wouldn't that be better for default ?
Hm, possibly. It doesn't include it when run from cron. Perhaps we should add a default updatedb.conf that does the same thing?
If you do this (which would be a good thing... stale nfs mounts can cause problems in this case), also make sure that afs is excluded. I believe it is, but am not 100% certain and pegging every afs server on the planet tends to be a bad idea :)
now slocate-2.2-5 contains a default updatedb.conf.