FS#2804 - HD prob - pacman

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by paul (mavrik) - Sunday, 05 June 2005, 18:58 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Would you take a look at this forum post:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=12470

It describes a problem related specifically to pacman. Any reason as to why this occurs?
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Saturday, 11 June 2005, 20:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Saturday, 11 June 2005, 20:09 GMT
Sorry, I've never experienced a squeal, and this is the first news to me. I'll reiterate when I wrote on the forum thread:

I've never heard of this problem before. But it's hard to blame the software for a hardware "squeal". Granted, pacman opens a lot of small files on startup, but if they are optimized (ie, situated next to each other) then it shouldn't be a big issue. It's just open/read/write/close system calls like any other program would use, nothing special. A top-level "find" command, by all logic, should emit the same squeal of pain from your hard drive.

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