Re: Bug#665885: e2fsprogs: libcomerr2.shlibs should point at e2fsprogs-udeb for udebs

2012-03-27 Thread Ted Ts'o
tags 665885 +pending thanks On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 06:41:42PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > Is this what you are looking for? > > > > % more debian/libcomerr2/DEBIAN/shlibs > > libcom_err 2 libcomerr2 (>= 1.33-3) > > udeb: libcom_err 2 e2fsprogs-udeb (>= 1.33-3) > > Yep, that looks like what

Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-27 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 02:32:58PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > If we want to improve fsck time then the best thing to do would be > > to consider a different default value for the -i option of mke2fs. This advice is not applicable for ext4, since it will not read unused portions of the

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-29 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 02:58:16PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > This is the standard way that ordinary files for which reliability was > important have been updated on Unix for decades. fsync is for files > which need synchronisation with things external to the computer (or at > least, external

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-28 Thread Ted Ts'o
I did some experimenting, and I figured out what was going on. You're right, (c) doesn't quite work, because delayed allocation meant that the writeout didn't take place until the fsync() for each file happened. I didn't see this at first; my apologies. However, this *does* work: extract(a)

Re: Bug#605009: serious performance regression with ext4

2010-11-26 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 03:53:27PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Just to sum up what dpkg --unpack does in 1.15.8.6: > 1/ set the package status as half-installed/reinst-required > 2/ extract all the new files as *.dpkg-new > 3/ for all the unpacked files: fsync(foo.dpkg-new) followed by >ren