Bug 161424

Summary: Updating selinux-policy-targeted very slow with large nfs mounts
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michael Young <m.a.young>
Component: policycoreutilsAssignee: Daniel Walsh <dwalsh>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Patch to stop following nfs partitions none

Description Michael Young 2005-06-23 11:06:46 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Updating selinux-policy-targeted on a system with large nfs mounts is very slow. This seems to be because the "find" command in the /sbin/fixfiles script can end up traversing the full directory tree of nfs mounts, even though it doesn't print any of the files they contain, and if the nfs file systems are large this can take a very long time. Replacing the find command with 
find $pattern -fstype nfs -prune -o ...
would make things a lot quicker on such systems.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
policycoreutils-1.18.1-2.12

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. update selinux-policy-targeted on a system with large nfs mounts
  

Additional info:
Comment 1 Daniel Walsh 2005-06-23 15:49:35 UTC 
Can you check out the fixfiles from policycoreutils-1.23.18-1
in Rawhide.  Would this satisfy you need?

Dan
Comment 2 Michael Young 2005-06-26 11:43:57 UTC 
Do you really mean policycoreutils-1.23.18-1 as I can't find that version anywhere?
Comment 3 Daniel Walsh 2005-06-27 11:00:23 UTC 
It is available in Rawhide/FC4

You can also download it (policycoreutils-1.23.18-2) from
ftp://people.redhat.com/dwalsh/SELinux/Fedora
Comment 4 Michael Young 2005-06-27 11:09:03 UTC 
The rawhide I can see has policycoreutils-1.23.11-3 . Is this what you mean?
Comment 5 Daniel Walsh 2005-06-27 11:18:52 UTC 
Yes, You can look at that one,  I just want you to take a look at fixfiles and
see if that would fix your problem.

Dan
Comment 6 Michael Young 2005-06-27 11:35:13 UTC 
No, it doesn't. I should have mentioned that since I submitted the bug I have
seen the problem in FC4 as well. We have an automount at /usr/local and the
sub-mount that contains the fedora patches also contains some unpackaged solaris
patch clusters, which means a lot of files. So the problem occurs when the
script is processing /usr (though /home could potentially cause similar problems
if people are logged on).
Comment 7 Michael Young 2005-09-23 15:51:49 UTC 
Changing the version to FC4 as it affects FC4 as well as FC3.
Comment 8 Daniel Walsh 2005-09-27 20:17:18 UTC 
Fixed in policycoreutils-1.27.2-1.1
Comment 9 Michael Young 2005-09-28 11:59:01 UTC 
No it isn't fixed.
Comment 10 Daniel Walsh 2005-09-28 14:42:19 UTC 
Created attachment 119368 [details]
Patch to stop following nfs partitions

Ok I finally got my head out of my but and read the first message again, about
-prune...

How does this patch look to you?
Comment 11 Michael Young 2005-09-28 15:51:24 UTC 
Yes, that patch does seem to fix my problem.