On 2022-10-14 12:44:25 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 14, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote: > > > This is not "the Debian FAQ" but "the DPKG FAQ", which has been known to > > > recommend awful things in the past. > > But it is still considered in the present times by the dpkg developers. > > Bug 923423 was closed several hours ago based on this dpkg FAQ: > This is obviously convenient on Guillem's part, but we have to optimize > systems by default for the general case and not just for dpkg -i.
This dpkg FAQ says that this is not beneficial for just dpkg, but also "for any application in the system". > > (the issue here is that there is a fsync for *every* file, so that for > And at this point I am wondering if this is a good design, or if it > would be better to use a different strategy. IMHO, this should time based or perhaps the strategy could depend on the package being installed (critical packages like libc6 could use fsync for every file, but all these intermediate fsync's are useless for packages that can simply be reinstalled in case of crash or hardware related failure). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
