blkid takes 2 hours to complete on RHEL 5.5
Issue
- blkid takes an exceptionally long time to run when a large number of device mapper devices are present in a system and/or the blkid.tab file is fairly large.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 or prior
- e2fsprogs version < e2fsprogs-1.39-27.el5
- A large number (100's or more) of blkid recognizable devices
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