What's the "updatedb -f sysfs"?
Issue
- Below output is seen in iotop command, what is
updatedb -f sysfs
and who invoked this process?
# /usr/sbin/iotop -botqqqk --iter=2
03:35:51 4784 be/7 root 631.72 K/s 0.00 K/s 0.00 % 99.58 % updatedb -f sysfs
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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