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Debootstrap is very, very slow. I watched a server install crawl by for something like an hour at a rate of about 1 package per second. A simple debootstrap chroot takes 10 minutes to setup, with a predownloaded tarball. This slowness is due to dpkg making excessive use of fsync(). Requests to fix dpkg in the past have been rejected and I was told to use eatmydata. After patching debootstrap to add eatmydata to the required list, and activate it during the second stage install, the time to construct the chroot dropped from 10m to 2m. This should also make installing new systems MUCH faster. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRHlSFAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75+dcIAK/GwMGqqZDQJRLS7//MoRYH DXFJa4PExLKnvyDvqONMV/gRNY7fc6E8kuEERZeySflgYzdxU28CwNCgB2+UFydh DiyARnEv+fXmjnSS0YtvOt8ZTr2z0UuMXpuMGz0+Yca88gGEnlPiB0tqcbQx0mrG GpGBnYLKpdk/mz5tsRo+LFgAKC8fsp6ievf+6w7vIsjrkWkuL5i+3lPBjmGlBtZ6 Bfaxk31Px9OBCpI1sX/NFNilQl++MAK2Ejm6FMblRSW7aWJXROHIGJzz74wQKqjP Kweqf6bqrcKQnBlKwKDooniIEqbYs0ewgF9jqkx+dz60taBPs+2swKtv2d82pRQ= =MoT3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/511e5485.90...@ubuntu.com
