On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 17:36 +0000, James Lewis wrote: > If this is as a result of dpkg calling "fsync" a lot, un-necessarily... > then perhaps we should consider this partly an issue with dpkg as well > as with btrfs?... I might even go so far as to say that it could be > described as a bug in other filesystems which are not honouring the > fsync call?
Other filesystems *are* honouring the fsync call (you can check by preloading libeatmydata); btrfs is just desperately slow when something fsyncs a lot. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601299 Title: maverick btrfs slow install -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
