A NOTE has been added to this issue. ====================================================================== https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5100 ====================================================================== Reported By: kdreyer Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: findutils Issue ID: 5100 Category: packaging Reproducibility: always Severity: minor Priority: normal Status: new ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2013-08-08 21:40 CEST Last Modified: 2013-08-08 22:44 CEST ====================================================================== Summary: exclude /afs from search directories Description: Thank you very much for your packaging work in OpenCSW.
Could you please add "/afs" to the list of directories that updatedb excludes while crawling? ====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (0010521) kdreyer (reporter) - 2013-08-08 22:44 https://www.opencsw.org/mantis/view.php?id=5100#c10521 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Ben, Thank you for considering this. AFS is the Andrew File System, a distributed, open-source filesystem similar to NFS. It has been around for a long time, but it's not part of any software that Oracle ships. It is not a part of Linux either, but you can see that Red Hat excludes /afs, all the way from RHEL 5 in 2007, up to Fedora Rawhide: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/mlocate.git/tree/updatedb.conf >From digging around in mailing list archives, there are references to this Red Hat configuration back in 2003, even though Red Hat has never shipped OpenAFS in its product line. AFS servers can be geographically located all over the world, and the OpenAFS client ships with a lot of AFS "cells" (sites) under /afs. The autodiscovery and subsequent crawling by updatedb can generate a lot of network traffic and use a lot of resources. While it is technically possible that skipping /afs has the potential to break setups at a hypothetical site, I believe that the overwhelming majority of people who have files located under /afs are running OpenAFS and would prefer that updatedb skip this location. _______________________________________________ bug-notifications mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-notifications
