On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 18:36 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > 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.
And what mount options are you using? If you're using defaults, /etc/mtab (and therefore the mount command) won't know what the default values are, but you can check /proc/mounts which will include the data= mount option. --Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
