Re: RFC: New required package: libblkid1

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 08:14:54PM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> 
> > Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
> > > We're talking about a file which would need to be updated in two instances:
> > > 
> > > - A physical device is added or removed from the system, or
> > 
> > That means it needs to change on nearly daily basis here.
> 
> "needs"?  It's a cache, and if you don't mind it scanning your devices when
> you do a uuid-based mount, then you don't need it and if you insist on
> having a read-only root partition, everything still works for you.  Where's
> the problem?

Just wanted to give a context on how often thats the case on some
systems.

MfG
        Goswin