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=`mount -t ufs,zfs | awk '$0 !~ /no(suid|exec)/ { print $3 }'`
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; only the UFS ones for the FreeBSD OS install. To that end, I have to manually edit these files to remove the ",zfs": MP=`mount -t ufs | awk '$0 !~ /no(suid|exec)/ { print $3 }'` ^^^^^^^^ Would it be worthwhile to anyone else to make the filesystem type(s) to scan via the periodic(8) scripts a variable that's set by default in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf and that user's can override via /etc/periodic.conf? Or, am I the only one that's suffering here? :) If there's interesting in this, I can look into coming up with some patches. But wanted to check if anyone else would find it useful. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"