Hi Just for the record. As a member of the ceph maintainers team in Debian I support the changes suggested in this bug report.
Gaudenz Ken Dreyer <[email protected]> writes: > Package: mlocate > Version: 0.26-1ubuntu1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > Ceph is a software-defined storage project, and it stores its data in > /var/lib/ceph as a big set of files. The problem is that updatedb indexes > /var/lib/ceph along with everything else on the system. This /var/lib/ceph > location is typically *very* large, and Ceph users are not supposed to go > poking around at the files in there. > > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. mount some large OSD disks under /var/lib/ceph > 2. updatedb runs and indexes all of the OSDs' files > > Actual results: > IO slows to a crawl > > Expected results: > updatedb excludes Ceph data (add /var/lib/ceph to PRUNEPATHS) > > Additional info: > Ceph also has a filesystem, so it would be nice to exclude the "ceph" > and "fuse.ceph" filesystem types as well (via PRUNEFS). > > For more background information, see a thread on the ceph-users mailing list: > http://lists.ceph.com/pipermail/ceph-users-ceph.com/2014-February/037446.html > > More discussion on ceph-devel: > http://www.spinics.net/lists/ceph-devel/msg18098.html > > Reported upstream: > http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/7451 > > Reported to Ubuntu: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mlocate/+bug/1281074 > > Reported to Fedora: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1223582 > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: jessie/sid > APT prefers trusty-updates > APT policy: (500, 'trusty-updates'), (500, 'trusty-security'), (500, > 'trusty'), (100, 'trusty-backports') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-30-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages mlocate depends on: > ii adduser 3.113+nmu3ubuntu3 > ii libc6 2.19-0ubuntu6.6 > > mlocate recommends no packages. > > mlocate suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > _______________________________________________ > Ceph-maintainers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-maintainers-ceph.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
