Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?
On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 11:49:05AM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
Shared infrastructure of course. Note that this includes an update of
the initramfs, which is CPU bound and takes a bit on this system. You
can take around 45s off the clock for the initramfs regeneration in
each run. I did a couple of runs and the results were pretty
consistent.
This tracks with my experience: optimizing initramfs creation would
produce *far* more bang for the buck than fiddling with dpkg fsyncs...
especially since we tend to do that repeatedly on any major upgrade. :(
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