Here is a test case than be used to benchmark the performance with and without the fix.
$ wget https://packages.chef.io/files/stable/chefdk/1.1.16/ubuntu/16.04/chefdk_1.1.16-1_amd64.deb $ time sudo dpkg --install chefdk_1.1.16-1_amd64.deb -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1663749 Title: Backport "libdpkg: Only preallocate disk size for files bigger than 16 KiB". To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/dpkg/+bug/1663749/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
