Source: libeatmydata Section: utils Priority: optional Maintainer: Mattia Rizzolo Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), Build-Depends-Indep: dh-exec, dh-sequence-bash-completion, Build-Depends-Arch: dh-exec, strace [!hurd-any !kfreebsd-any] , Standards-Version: 4.6.0 Rules-Requires-Root: no Homepage: https://www.flamingspork.com/projects/libeatmydata/ Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libeatmydata Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libeatmydata.git Package: eatmydata Architecture: all Depends: libeatmydata1 (>= ${source:Version}), ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, Description: Library and utilities designed to disable fsync and friends This package contains a small LD_PRELOAD library (libeatmydata) and a couple of helper utilities designed to transparently disable fsync and friends (like open(O_SYNC)). This has two side-effects: making software that writes data safely to disk a lot quicker and making this software no longer crash safe. . You will find eatmydata useful if particular software calls fsync(), sync() etc. frequently but the data it stores is not that valuable to you and you may afford losing it in case of system crash. Data-to-disk synchronization calls are typically very slow on modern file systems and their extensive usage might slow down software significantly. It does not make sense to accept such a hit in performance if data being manipulated is not very important. . On the other hand, do not use eatmydata when you care about what software stores or it manipulates important components of your system. The library is called libEAT-MY-DATA for a reason. Package: libeatmydata1 Architecture: any Section: libs Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}, Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, Breaks: eatmydata (<< 82-1), Replaces: eatmydata (<< 82-1), Multi-Arch: same Description: Library and utilities to disable fsync and friends - shared library This package contains the actual LD_PRELOAD library (libeatmydata) supporting the operation of the eatmydata package. Users typically want to use or depend on the eatmydata package instead of this one, so see its description for further information. Package: eatmydata-udeb Package-Type: udeb Architecture: all Section: debian-installer Depends: ${misc:Depends}, Description: Disable fsync and friends during installation to speed up the install This package contains a small LD_PRELOAD library (libeatmydata) and a couple of helper utilities designed to transparently disable fsync and friends (like open(O_SYNC)). This has two side-effects: making software that writes data safely to disk a lot quicker and making this software no longer crash safe. . This package provides the files to enable eatmydata during a Debian install as performed by debian-installer.