Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 11:20:42 +0300 From: Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg> To: Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Make filesystem type configurable for periodic(8)? Message-ID: <995A1779-9983-4AB9-8618-9227C1B491E5@digsys.bg> In-Reply-To: <CAOjFWZ4VxyMLSzzWsUMj21HccZkzwPUtM5PWAS-oaaocCLN8Dw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAOjFWZ4VxyMLSzzWsUMj21HccZkzwPUtM5PWAS-oaaocCLN8Dw@mail.gmail.com>
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On May 4, 2012, at 7:05 PM, Freddie Cash wrote:
> A few of the periodic(8) scripts in FreeBSD have constructs similar to
> the following to get which filesystems to scan for various things:
> MP=3D`mount -t ufs,zfs | awk '$0 !~ /no(suid|exec)/ { print $3 }'`
>=20
> For systems with large ZFS pools, and many ZFS filesystems, these
> periodic scripts can grind it to its knees, and then some. For
> backups servers where we don't really care about the
> ownership/permissions of files from the FreeBSD perspective, we really
> don't want the ZFS filesytems to be scanned;=20
[=85]
The script already accommodates this scenario. Just mount your storage =
filesystems with 'nosuidexec' and they won't be scanned.=20
Daniel=
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