var/named/run-root/proc ?

[henningl]

After some update with yum I get tonnes of files/symlinks in the /var/named/run-root/proc/ -directory

i.e.:
var/named/run-root/proc/23551/task/18759/fd/3042 -> /var/lib/mysql/nccntest/orders_products_download.MYI

Anything to worry about?

Also, theres a 1016 MB large file "kcore" in the directory.

[breun]

Are you sure it was different before the update? I see symlinks and a kcore of several hundred MB there on my systems. Nothing to worry about AFAIK.

[henningl]

No I'm not entirely sure, but all of a sudden my backup-script backs up these files. Maybe they've just changed location?

anyways, the "kcore" file isn't actually a file, its actually just a pointer the kernel provides to the systems memory. So I'm actually dumping memory to disk when backing up these files

I've decided to skip this directory when taking backups and asume it's just a bunch of generatet links and handlers, simliar to the /dev/ filetree.

[breun]

Yep, you better exclude dirs like /proc, /var/named/run-root/proc and /sys when you're backing up a complete system.