Re: [Non-DoD Source] maximum excludes workaround?

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On Thu, 2017-10-26 at 16:59 -0500, Wart wrote:
> OS: SL7.3, policycoreutils-2.5-11.el7_3.x86_64
> 
> I have a cluster with quite a few user home directories automounted
> from
> a NFS server.  I have found that if too many (> ~1000) home
> directories
> are mounted, restorecon spits out the following:
> 
> # restorecon -R /var/lib/boinc
> Maximum excludes 1000 exceeded.
> [repeats hundreds of times]
> 
> This message pops up even when I'm not relabeling a part of the
> filesystem that's unmounted.  If I reduce the number of automounted
> home
> directories, then the message goes away.
> 
> I get similar messages when loading and unloading custom selinux
> policy
> modules.
> 
> Will this actually prevent restorecon from relabeling files?

No, it just won't skip those directories during the file tree walk, so
it will be less efficient.

> Is there a dynamic way to increase this limit to make the messages go
> away?

Not in policycoreutils-2.5.  In 2.6 and later, the limit was removed.
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