All the slowness can be attributed to dpkg's use of sync and fsync. I created a PPA that removes those calls, and dpkg is fast again.
https://launchpad.net/~brian-rogers/+archive/btrfs Of course, this takes away safety in the event of a crash or power failure. It'd be a good idea to keep a snapshot around and know how to use the snapshot in case your package database gets corrupted in a crash. -- DPKG is very slow when using BTRFS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607632 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
