On 2014-10-23, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > > > I expect this suggestion to be followed by many people griping that my > suggestion is unsafe and that the years and years we spent living > without fsync() were unsafe. But we did. We had at least a decade of > fast systems in the "before time". And the system was much faster > then and life was good. Therefore I include the warning that you must > decide yourself if you agree or disagree with flushing the cache and > running at hard disk speeds or enabling buffer cache and running at > ram buffer cache speeds. Personally I use the LD_PRELOAD library for > everything. YMMV. >
What about some of the other workarounds/solutions outlined here (there)? https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/FAQ#User_Questions (Q: Why is dpkg so slow when using new filesystems such as btrfs or ext4?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnm4hf9s.240.cu...@einstein.electron.org