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  1. Bug #624877
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Comment 25 for bug 624877

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astrostl (astrostl) wrote :

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584254

Rich W ran into a thread on dpkg sync behavior, which led to that bug. dpkg's fsync() call was changed to a sync() call, in order to improve ext4/btrfs performance. Those of us with busy, completely unrelated filesystems (such as heavy NFS traffic) know how long a 'sync' can take. dpkg version 1.15.8.6 or later has a --force-unsafe-io option to disable the sync() call, and it is alleged to still be safe on ext3 systems per http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2010/11/msg00034.html .

The 11.04 Natty package version is 1.16.0, and it installs on 10.04 LTS Lucid if the liblzma and xz-utils packages from Natty are also fetched - no need for updating libc, or anything else base. The dpkg --version output of this is 1.5.8.10ubuntu1, not 1.16.0, but it DOES have the unsafe-io option. We will likely roll this to all of our 10.04 LTS systems, and I will report back.