From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Subject: Re: btrfs and apt package manager in ubuntu
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 09:10:59 +0100
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:21:36AM -0500, Christian wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 16:17 +0300, Abdullah Ansari wrote:
> > it's very slow in installtion with apt in ubuntu
> 
> I'm seeing the same thing. When installing using apt the disk grinds
> "forever" before the installation completes. I have two identical
> laptops running Linux Mint 10 (rc) with similar disk layout except that
> one has two btrfs partitions while the other only has ext4. The one with
> btrfs takes at least 10 times longer to install updates on than the ext4
> one.

That's because dpkg uses sync when unpacking each package.

Mike