Re: A 2025 NewYear present: make dpkg --force-unsafe-io the default?

[Matteo Croce]

> Part of the trick here is that the fsync()s are skipped, but I think 
> even if none of the above were problems, then we'd still need to > 
fsync() stuff to get the actual filesystem entries to make sense, so > 
the currently missing directory fsync()s might be a worse problem for > 
such reflinking than the proposed disabled file data fsync()s in the > 
patch. But I've not checked how reflinking interacts in general with > 
fsync()s, etc. Hi, I've removed the fsync() just because when using 
reflinks there isn't any file data to flush. If you reintroduce them, 
the performances will not vary that much. Regards, -- Matteo Croce

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