On 2010-10-21 02:05 +0200, Chanoch (Ken) Bloom wrote: > The version you're using in Bug #588254 is the first version of dpkg() > that uses sync(). What I'd like to establish is whether Linus and > friends have fixed fsync() so that it's significantly faster than > sync(). It sounded like that was their goal.
If so, they did not quite succeed at least on ext4 in 2.6.36, because in dpkg 1.15.7 (which uses fsync() rather than sync()) I'm still seeing the massive slowdown mentioned in http://bugs.debian.org/578635. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
