Bug#668319: grub-pc postins issuses a find / which takes an overly long time on large disks

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:40:03AM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> grub-pc's postinst runs a find / over all local disks. This takes a lot of
> time if large disks with lots of small files are installed. In my case
> it takes nearly 20 minutes. This is IMHO not acceptable. And i do not see
> a reason why grub-pc has to scan all files on a system.

This would clearly be unacceptable, but I don't see any such thing in
GRUB or its packaging.  You were very specific in your report ("find
/"), so could you elaborate on exactly where you saw this?

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]