Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 59485
rpm shouldn't check *all* filesystems for size
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.17 i686; Nav) Description of problem: RPM should check only the filesystems that are going to have files installed on them for enough size. Currently, if one has a slow smbfs mount, one is either stuck with using --ignoresize or waiting...and waiting...and waiting while the size of all mounted filesystems is examined. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.0.3-1.03 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Mount a slow smbfs mount, and run rpm -Uvh <rpmname>. If other i/o is going on on the filesystem, things become even more unbearable. Actual Results: rpm waits and waits on examining the smbfs filesystem size Expected Results: rpm should have skipped checking the smbfs filesystem size, since no files were being installed on that filesystem. Additional info: rpm-4.0.3-1.03
rpm has to check all mounted file systems for file paths, or disk accounting doesn't "work". There's no way to tell a priori where the files in a package are gonna end up, nor is it possible to take into account in packaging, all possible types of file system mount points. What may be a bit subtle, is that rpm also does disk accounting through all file system symlinks, even if the symlink points to, say, another mounted files system. Use --ignoresize if necessary, that's what the option is there for.