> I have a FreeBSD ZFS file server with tens of millions of files
> stored on it.
>
> But, the daily periodic scripts like
> /etc/periodic/security/110.neggrpperm and
> /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate take hours iterating through those
> folders, and I just don't need them to be scanned.
>
> I see that I can edit /etc/locate.rc to fix the behavior for
> /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate but I don't see a way to exclude
> folders from other scripts like
> /etc/periodic/security/110.neggrpperm from scanning them.  Is there
> any way to prune out folders that I don't want scanned, or should I
> just disable those jobs?

Thanks to everyone who replied.

I got some helpful suggestions from a few people, which all amounted
to either "disable the jobs" or "create your own custom version of
those jobs".  So for now, I'm just disabling them.

I appreciate all the help.  Thanks!

-- 

Tim Gustafson
t...@ucsc.edu
831-459-5354
Baskin Engineering, Room 313A
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