Bug#700633: Debootstrap is very slow. Please use eatmydata to fix this.

[Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>]

Phillip Susi wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > # time debootstrap wheezy testinstall
> > http://localmirror/ftp.us.debian.org/debian ... real    2m58.577s
> > user    0m49.639s sys     0m8.749s
>
> Wow, that's pretty fast.

2m58s was the slow time.  1m4.819s was the fast time.  :-)

> I was testing on a server with a raid5 array and was seeing nearly
> 10m original time, down to 1-2m patched.

This is on a relatively fast machine.  But the benefits will be more
dramatic on machines with slower I/O bandwidth for disk storage.

> And that's with a pre built debootstrap tarball so nothing needed
> downloaded.

With --download-only I assume?  Or otherwise is fine.  Sounds good.

Bob