How to Install and Uninstall eatmydata Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 08,2024

1. Install "eatmydata" package

Please follow the guidance below to install eatmydata on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                eatmydata
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "eatmydata" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall eatmydata on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                eatmydata
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the eatmydata package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: eatmydata
Architecture: all
Version: 105-9build2
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Source: libeatmydata
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Mattia Rizzolo
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 24
Depends: libeatmydata1 (>= 105-9build2)
Filename: pool/main/libe/libeatmydata/eatmydata_105-9build2_all.deb
Size: 5492
MD5sum: ffda5c99a1536736ba1f95bdcbfb70d2
SHA1: 3207ada62a733b3c6a6c1e1255fe862ddd19e954
SHA256: 7a6e96c798c928a85b6eda2ca2c3eb7acfecf2ddc6c9b35ec7aa6077f41c1d75
SHA512: abbcbeaf7ce20870086becd6652acc442126a1bac2ca020e2247ac8dacc19c54600e6ff91134cf880badbdfdd278c7df6bd3455fd902c9cd66c4b1527b42d3a6
Homepage: https://launchpad.net/libeatmydata
Description-en: 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.
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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.
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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.
Description-md5: 4dad1280628a46c312954a4d1ba76a96
Task: cloud-image