On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Felix Miata
Every installation, and upgrade, of netcfg, though often as few as 5 bytes, is writing a 4096 byte hostname/HOSTNAME sector (or possibly more) to the media, though no change to it/them has been made.
During every zypper dup, something is writing /etc/fstab, yet, its content matches the backup.
Many files in /etc/sysconfig get written during updating, yet remain unchanged from their backups.
This wastefulness is not common to other distros I have familiarity with. Why is it happening in openSUSE?
Do you do zypper dup often enough to worry about this? SSD media, which I assume you're worrying about, buffer and batch writes internally so unless some of those writes explicitly fsync, writing 5 bytes in 100 files or 5000 bytes at once shouldn't matter much. Basically, count how many bytes (blocks?) in total are written to disk while updating, and unless you can significantly decrease that number, which files get touched matter less. I'd worry more (way more) about logging. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org