Comment 12 for bug 1771382

After receiving additional input and based on what was already known I have decided to drop the generator from our package.

The generator, which in turn runs ds-identify, where the problem is created by using blkid, speeds up the boot process in cases where cloud-init shold not be running in the first place. The chain of events is as follows:

generator runs ds-identify
if ds-identify cannot find a data source the cloud-init services are disabled

With cloud-init disabled the boot is sped up as no Python code gets executed.

A reasonable assumption is that the person installing and enabling cloud-init knows they run in environment where cloud-init is needed. Thus looking for the data source twice, once in ds-identify and then again in the cloud-init Python code is not really an advantage.

Dropping the generator avoids the problem with blkid and it avoids looking for the data source twice, once in shell code and once in Python code.

Change is on the way to Factory