It says in that post that xfs suffers dir fragmentation easily. xfs is probably quite an unusual choice for /var so there's a bit of a danger this will be considered a corner case...
Are you saying you are also seeing this on ext4? -- dpkg gets slower as /var/lib/dpkg/info gets fragmented https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/442114 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
