[pacman-dev] filesystem performance

[Xavier]

Manuel "ekerazha" C. wrote:
>> However, if you only care about pacman, you could use a separate
>> partition for /var/lib/pacman (or a loopback filesystem).
>
> This is beating the dead horse. Somebody should use a loopback
> filesystem in order to *partially* compensate a pacman
> "misimplementation"...?
>
>

I said you could use that, not should.

The other way would be to experiment with other backends. In this case, 
an actual sqlite proof of concept (that is, working code) would help.