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...on a BTRFS filesystem. I don''t think that BTRFS is a slow filesystem, but it seems that some aptitude (or dpkg) patterns are capable to highlight the btrfs slowness in some corner case. In order to alleviate this problem, I wrote a small script which calls aptitude with the LD_PRELOAD libeatmyadata library. And now I want to share this idea (which is not my own, you can see several suggestion about that in the net) in order to collect suggestions and/or critics. For who which don''t know what is libeatmydata, the package info says: "This package contains a small LD_PRELOAD li...