* Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>, 2009-09-08, 13:28:
Since CFQ is the default IO scheduler, this kind of tasks should be launched with "ionice -c3", no ?But that would introduce a dependency on ionice. An option would be to use start-stop-daemon's IO nice capabilities.
$ dlocate -S /bin/ionice util-linux: /usr/bin/ionice $ apt-cache show util-linux | grep ^Essential Essential: yes -- Jakub Wilk