Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal
On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > Then don't use the option. It should definetly be an option:
>
> It's a pity that there is no kernel support for synching one filesystem (or
> maybe a few filesystems).
It is being implemented right now, actually... Maybe it will be in 2.6.39.
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