Ubuntu
dpkg package

  1. Bug #601299
  2. Comment #40

Comment 40 for bug 601299

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James Lewis (james-fsck) wrote : Re: btrfs slow install

It seems that this issue is only "worse" on BTRFS (OK, much worse)... but it is a sufficient issue even on ext4 that there is a bug report requesting a "no fsync" option for dpkg/apt in Debian's bug tracker!

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588254