Hi there, On Thu, 18 Jun 2020, Kazunori Ohki wrote:
I'm wondering if clamdscan can scan petabyte-size storage.
The filesystem limits are up to your operating system. What is it? It's also up to the filesystem utilities etc. to make data available to ClamAV so that ClamAV can scan them in some way. There are several ways to do that. It's all documented. ClamAV itself doesn't really care about the size of the filesystem, although you might care if you hand petabytes of files to ClamAV to scan - it will take a while, and probably use a lot of energy. The more random data that you give to ClamAV to scan, the bigger will be the risk of a false positive.
There're some MAXxxx settings in the /etc/clamd.d/scan.conf though, is there any limitation about filesystem size to run clamdscan ?
I don't know any file called 'scan.conf' but I've seen people refer to such a file in the past. I guess it's in some distribution's packages. You can find the man page for 'clamd.conf' on the ClamAV Website. Please read it, noting especially the warnings that it contains about changing some of the limits, and any part where it suggests that it is not a good idea to delete files just because ClamAV flags them. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
