On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 01:32:12PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote: > > > That one's udev specific? I guess it could be moved as well. > > > > It's a blkid(8) cache to mount stuff by uuid/label and guess FS. > > Used at least by udev rules and stuff linked against libblkid > > (fsck.*). Both can be triggered at any time later after boot. > > blkid(8) can work w/o cache. > 'Cache' is the key-word here. I suggest pinging upstream > that /var/cache is there for some reason. It was historically in /etc because it got used to mount /var. As an example, if you grab some RHEL systems on the default install, every entry in the fstab is UUID=... rather than fixed devices. Not having the cache the mounts will still work, but will be very slow as all devices will be rescanned.
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