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  1. Bug #601299
  2. Comment #35

Comment 35 for bug 601299

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Chris Halse Rogers (raof) wrote : Re: [Bug 601299] Re: maverick btrfs slow install

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.