Bug 233799 - fwbackups: errantly follows symbolic links until all system resources are consumed
Summary: fwbackups: errantly follows symbolic links until all system resources are con...
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fwbackups
Version: 6
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Stewart Adam
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-03-25 05:22 UTC by Bernard Johnson
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-03-28 21:09:48 UTC
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Description Bernard Johnson 2007-03-25 05:22:23 UTC
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

Comment 1 Stewart Adam 2007-03-25 19:54:06 UTC
The new engines in 1.43.0 fix this, as you suggested in 233772 perhaps you test
and can confirm this?


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