On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Freddie Cash <fjwc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Bryan Drewery <br...@shatow.net> wrote: >> On 05/04/2012 11:05 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: >>> A few of the periodic(8) scripts in FreeBSD have constructs similar to >>> the following to get which filesystems to scan for various things: >>> MP=`mount -t ufs,zfs | awk '$0 !~ /no(suid|exec)/ { print $3 }'` >>> >>> For systems with large ZFS pools, and many ZFS filesystems, these >>> periodic scripts can grind it to its knees, and then some. For >>> backups servers where we don't really care about the >>> ownership/permissions of files from the FreeBSD perspective, we really >>> don't want the ZFS filesytems to be scanned; only the UFS ones for the >>> FreeBSD OS install. To that end, I have to manually edit these files >>> to remove the ",zfs": >>> MP=`mount -t ufs | awk '$0 !~ /no(suid|exec)/ { print $3 }'` >>> ^^^^^^^^ >>> Would it be worthwhile to anyone else to make the filesystem type(s) >>> to scan via the periodic(8) scripts a variable that's set by default >>> in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf and that user's can override via >>> /etc/periodic.conf? >>> >>> Or, am I the only one that's suffering here? :) >>> >>> If there's interesting in this, I can look into coming up with some >>> patches. But wanted to check if anyone else would find it useful. >>> >> >> I would find this useful. But further, I have a ZFS root pool as well as >> a ZFS backup pool. I don't want to exclude all of ZFS, just certain >> pools, or even certain datasets. > > Would you mind testing the attached patch? It adds four new variables > for use in periodic.conf (defaults shown): > > daily_status_security_chksetuid_fs="ufs,zfs" > daily_status_security_chksetuid_fs_ignore="" > daily_status_security_neggrpperm_fs="ufs,zfs" > daily_status_security_neggrpperm_fs_ignore="" > > The _fs variables take filesystem types, as would be passed to > mount(8). These limit the entire search based on type, so an all or > nothing approach. > > The _fs_ignore variables are space separated lists of mountpoints to > skip. So you can leave zfs in the _fs list, and then list specific > filesystems here that you do not want to be scanned. > > I don't claim to be any great shell script writer, but this appears to > do the job. Any suggestions, pointers, comments, etc welcomed. :)
Guess I should mention how to use the patch. :) cd /etc patch -p0 < /path/to/periodic-fs-type.patch -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"