[pacman-dev] delay writes a fsync

[Allan McRae]

Sebastian Nowicki wrote:
>
> On 12/03/2009, at 7:18 PM, Xavier wrote:
>
>> Otherwise, go go sqlite :)
>
> Wasn't there a (set of) patch(es) for a "packed" format for the 
> databases (tar-like, iirc)? From what I remember there was a 
> performance improvement.

There was talk about moving to a tar based back-end but I don't remember 
patches.  There was some patches for an sqlite backend but given we 
already need libarchive to extract the packages, a tar based backend 
makes more sense to me.

Allan