Bug 129339

Summary:	updatedb walks on netpaths
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Andreas Schwab <schwab>
Status:	VERIFIED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	RC 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:	1000
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Jan Engelhardt 2005-10-19 11:58:02 UTC

13:52 gwdg-wb04:/home/nop # ps aufwwx|grep find

/usr/bin/find / ( -fstype nfs -o -fstype NFS -o -fstype proc -o -fstype afs -o
-fstype proc -o -fstype smbfs -o -fstype autofs -o -fstype iso9660 -o -fstype
ncpfs -o -fstype coda -o -fstype devpts -o -fstype ftpfs -o -fstype devfs -o
-fstype mfs -o -fstype sysfs -o -fstype shfs -o -type d -regex
\(^/mnt$\)\|\(^/cdrom$\)\|\(^/tmp$\)\|\(^/usr/tmp$\)\|\(^/var/tmp$\)\|\(^/var/spool$\)\|\(^/proc$\)\|\(^/media$\)
) -prune -o -print0

That's nice and good to skip any network mounts, but it does not account for
CIFS. It should preferably skip _all_ of the filesystems that have 'nodev' in
/proc/filesystems.

Comment 1 Andreas Schwab 2005-10-19 12:24:35 UTC

tmpfs should still be scanned.

Comment 2 Andreas Schwab 2005-10-19 12:42:20 UTC

Fixed.

Comment 3 Jan Engelhardt 2005-10-20 06:33:35 UTC

Where do I change that? I need it now otherwise it will retraverse all the mounts to internal ftp servers again in 24h.

Comment 4 Andreas Schwab 2005-10-20 08:12:52 UTC

/etc/sysconfig/locate

Comment 5 Jan Engelhardt 2006-07-15 09:35:10 UTC

What about the new 9pfs? Please add if not yet included.

Comment 6 Andreas Schwab 2006-07-24 12:43:08 UTC

Fixed.

Comment 7 Jan Engelhardt 2008-07-16 17:36:49 UTC

It is probably time again to have a look at this issue. With the advent of FUSE, it gets harder and harder to figure out what could be a network path and which is not. What's your opinion on how to deal with this sort of thing?

Maybe scan /proc/mounts and build a whitelist based on it, including all devices with /dev/* in the whitelist, as well as tmpfs and whatever is obviously local?

Comment 8 Wolfgang Wilde 2008-07-21 13:40:56 UTC

On my OpenSUSE 11.0 it now scans automounted NFS paths. Looks like local-file detection is not working anymore in 11.0(?).

Comment 9 Andreas Schwab 2008-07-21 13:56:25 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 333296 ***