Bug 233799
| Summary: | fwbackups: errantly follows symbolic links until all system resources are consumed | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Bernard Johnson <bjohnson> |
| Component: | fwbackups | Assignee: | Stewart Adam <s.adam> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6 | ||
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2007-03-28 21:09:48 UTC | Type: | --- |
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The new engines in 1.43.0 fix this, as you suggested in 233772 perhaps you test and can confirm this? |
Description of problem: It seems that fwbackups errantly follows symbolic links recursively until all system resources are consumed. I started a fwbackups job and let it run. It ran for about 14 hours and when I returned home, it had consumed enormous space on the destination, all available memory (2G), and was still churning away. I did a strace on the process and found this: open("/net/terastation/mnt/array1/backup/server/Backups/Backup-2007-03-24/home/bjohnson/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/bjohnson/My Music/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/bjohnson/My Music/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/bjohnson/My Music/svn/LinuxTools/linux/kernel2-6-15/include/config/arch/.svn/text-base/shark.h.svn-base", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666 It seems that there is a symbolic link in ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/profiles/bjohnson/My Music that points back to ~. fwbackups seems to be recursively following this. This is one of many links. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fwbackups-1.42.3a-1.fc6