Date: 2016-11-25 14:50
<p>Two years ago, I did some experiments with eatmydata and the Debian
-installer, observing how using
+installation system, observing how using
<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Speeding_up_the_Debian_installer_using_eatmydata_and_dpkg_divert.html">eatmydata
could speed up the installation</a> quite a bit. My testing measured
speedup around 20-40 percent for Debian Edu, where we install around
-1000 packages from within the installer. The eatmydata package is a
-way to disable/delay file system flushing. This is a bit risky in the
-general case, as files that should be stored on disk will stay only in
-memory a bit longer than expected, causing problems if a machine
-crashes at an inconvenient time. But for an installation, if the
-machine crashes during installation the process is normally restarted,
-and avoiding disk operations as much as possible to speed up the
-process make perfect sense.
+1000 packages from within the installer. The eatmydata package
+provide a way to disable/delay file system flushing. This is a bit
+risky in the general case, as files that should be stored on disk will
+stay only in memory a bit longer than expected, causing problems if a
+machine crashes at an inconvenient time. But for an installation, if
+the machine crashes during installation the process is normally
+restarted, and avoiding disk operations as much as possible to speed
+up the process make perfect sense.
<p>I added code in the Debian Edu specific installation code to enable
<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libeatmydata">eatmydata</a>,