Comment 14 for bug 290666

Disabling fsync() doesn't help anymore in Karmic because Sqlite3 seems to have switched to fdatasync() by default. Disabling fdatasync does the trick for me this time, liferea starts almost instantly again.

The hack in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/liferea/+bug/333718/comments/10
would need to be switched to fdatasync to make it work again, e.g.:

**** libfsync.c ****
int fdatasync (int fd) {
 return 0;
}
******************

I'll attach the one I'm using too, see Rodrigos instructions linked above on how to build it.