Re: Ideas for speeding up dpkg

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> * Jonathan Bastien-Filiatrault:
>
>> The other day, while dpkg was running, I was wondering if it could be
>> sped up by using a database backend instead of flat files. I was
>> thinking it would be possible to graft sqlite to dpkg and eliminate the
>> current file-counting ("Reading database ...") bottleneck in filesdb.c.
>
> Do you use ext2 or ext3?  Sorting file access by inode number might
> help quite a bit (you can get the inode number without touching the
> file using a Linux readdir extension).

Or use ONE flat file instead of a per package file.

MfG
        Goswin