Re: Ideas for speeding up dpkg
* 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).
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