Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.8.10
Severity: normal

The manual page says:
  unsafe-io: Do not perform safe I/O operations when unpacking. Currently
  this implies not performing file system syncs before file renames, (...)

While this is stricly true, there are still two fsync()s occuring on each
package unpack, making the whole thing still slow when installing many
packages at a time.

These happen for /var/lib/dpkg/updates and /var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci.

Mike

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  coreutils               8.5-1            GNU core utilities
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-6          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-11        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libselinux1             2.0.96-1         SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  xz-utils                5.0.0-2          XZ-format compression utilities
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

dpkg recommends no packages.

Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii  apt                           0.8.11.1   Advanced front-end for dpkg

-- no debconf information



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