Pulsar does not deal with prelinking
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We need to update the Pulsar beacon to support prelinking on CentOS 6 systems. Ideally this is turned off before deploying Pulsar (optional), but otherwise we need to un-prelink the file before we gather the checksum and stat information. Basic example:
There is not a prelink Salt module, but we could use cmd.run with prelink -u filename
Will this be acceptable for the teams involved? If they don't want to disable prelinking will they be ok with us doing it automatically like this?
After talking with the teams involved (specifically Analytics today), it looks like unlinking files before calculating checksums is a non-starter. It could have performance impacts. So instead we're just going to rely on change notifications to spot problems in those cases, rather than the checksums themselves.