Interesting. A 4-year-old bug that hasn't been fixed. Imagine that. -derek
On Fri, October 4, 2024 8:37 am, Rich Pieri wrote: > https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/11140 > > Briefly: Flatpak uses fsync extensively. For reasons nobody is entirely > sure about, this causes ZFS to thrash *hard* which I discovered earlier > this week as I finally got around to switching my Calibre install from > Debian's packages (which are woefully out of date). A flatpak > installation that would take at most about 30 seconds on Btrfs or ext4 > takes an hour on ZFS. > > For me at least, the workaround is to bracket flatpak install/upgrade > commands with disabling and enabling dataset sync: > > sudo zfs set sync=disabled zfsroot/zfs/home > flatpak upgrade > sudo zfs set sync=standard zfsroot/zfs/home > > -- > \m/ (--) \m/ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.blu.org > https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745 de...@ihtfp.com www.ihtfp.com Computer and Internet Security Consultant _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
