Comment 11 for bug 739774

I finally found an old computer which still has a floppy controller (I don't have an actual floppy anywhere, but having one wouldn't expose this bug at all). I can reproduce the problem there.

Nothing in udisks changed since maverick, and as the problem only occurs on the live CD, with persistency, then the bug is in casper somewhere. I debugged this a bit and indeed found that find_cow_device() iterates over all block devices and runs blkid and other tests on them; this will time out badly.

In udev and udisks we set up the rules to avoid touching a floppy device automatically at all costs, for this very reason. casper must do the same. I figure it wouldn't be very useful to have a persistency file on a floppy disk anyway.