On Wednesday 02 March 2011 17.02:11 Marius Vollmer wrote: > - Instead, we move all packages that are to be unpacked into > half-installed / reinstreq before touching the first one, and put a > big sync() right before carefully writing /var/lib/dpkg/status. You don't want to do this. While production systems usually are upgraded in downtime windows (with less load), it is sometimes necessary to install some package (tcpdump or whatever to diagnose problems...) while the system is under high load. Especially when you're trying to find out why the machine has a load of 20 and you can't afford to kill it... On a machine with lots of RAM (== disk cache...) and high I/O load, you don't want to do a (global!) sync(). This can totally kill the machine for 20min or more and is a big no go. -- vbi -- featured link: http://www.pool.ntp.org
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