Re: find command misbehaves on debian with kernel 4.9

[Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.de>]

On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 11:55:20 -0400
Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net> wrote:

> 
> I tried this on a VM running Jessie w/ the bpo kernel. It reproduces
> here.
> 
>    vm:~# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches 
>    vm:~# cd /
>    vm:/# find . -name "*systemd-resolved*"
>    ./usr/share/man/man8/systemd-resolved.service.8.gz
>    ./usr/share/man/man8/systemd-resolved.8.gz
>    vm:/# find . -name "*systemd-resolved*"
>    ./usr/share/man/man8/systemd-resolved.service.8.gz
>    ./usr/share/man/man8/systemd-resolved.8.gz
>    ./lib/systemd/system/systemd-resolved.service
>    ./lib/systemd/systemd-resolved
>    
> Although it only happened once. I tried another 20-odd times, even using 3 for
> drop_caches, and couldn't make it happen again.
> 
> But on another VM, on the first try. So apparently drop_caches isn't
> strong enough to make it happen again
> 

Is autofs involved?


Regards
Harri