Bug#588254: please allow to disable extremely slow fsync/sync at runtime

2010-07-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
# Modestas Vainius wrote: # # > first of all, I'm fully aware of [1] and [2]. # > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578635 # > [2] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15910 # # Ah, but are you aware of 584254? :) merge 584254 588254 quit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Bug#588254: please allow to disable extremely slow fsync/sync at runtime

2010-07-06 Thread Modestas Vainius
Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.7.2 Severity: normal Hello, first of all, I'm fully aware of [1] and [2]. However, solution implemented in #578635 is not good enough and slows down dpkg considerably on ext4 and even twice as much on btrfs [3]. So it is pretty clear that dpkg is not ready for the age