updatedb should exclude sshfs by default

[Ryan Thompson]

Binary package hint: findutils

By default, updatedb will index filesystems mounted over the network via sshfs, the fuse ssh filesystem. I assume that default policy is not to index files across the network, in which case sshfs should be added to PRUNEFS in updatedb.conf.

Also, /mnt should probably be added to PRUNEPATHS, just like /media already is.

[ski (skibrianski)]

This needs to be fixed. I recently changed my sshfs mountpoint from under /media to my home directory, and that resulted in my nightly mlocate scripts filling my disk. What makes this worse is when you are using the -o follow_symlinks option, which can result (in my case) in infinitely large paths, guaranteeing updatedb will *never* finish.

[ski (skibrianski)]

Wow, still not fixed? This is an easy fix guys. Just add fuse.sshfs to PRUNEFS in /etc/updatedb.conf ...

[Andy Hauser (andy-ubuntu-bugzilla)]

Similar to #431925 which requests similar things for glusterfs and /net. Low hanging fruit, big gain.
See list of notified people. Thanks.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Fixed in Lucid.

mlocate (0.21.1-3) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Adeodato Simó ]
  * Remove the "mlocate" group on purge. No other files than the mlocate.db
    database should belong to said group, and since it also gets removed on
    purge, it should be safe to remove the group as well. (Closes: #520017)

  [ Tollef Fog Heen ]
  * Adopt package. (Closes: #548351)
  * Add fuse.glusterfs to PRUNEFS. (Closes: #535170)
  * Add fuse.sshfs to PRUNEFS. (Closes: #526262)
  * Stop giving out an error when not running updatedb because we are on
    battery. (Closes: #519188)
  * Remove XS-X-Collab-Maint from debian/control, it seems it didn't take
    off

 -- Tollef Fog Heen <email address hidden> Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:59:31 +0200