Your message dated Fri, 23 Nov 2012 08:47:27 +0000
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and subject line Bug#693483: fixed in bonnie++ 1.97
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regarding bonnie++: cobwebby package description
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Package: bonnie++
Version: 1.96
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
This package description thinks Squeeze is in the future:
[...]
This is the experimental version. It's not ready to replace the 1.x series
in time for Lenny but will be for Lenny+1. The extra features (large file
support, better bon_csv2html, and support for zcav tests on multiple devices)
will make it worth using for some people.
Lenny's 1.03d version of bonnie++ *didn't* have this paragraph, so I
gather this fork was created some time before the name "Squeeze" was
announced for Lenny+1 (Sep 2008), but this text missed being updated
when the experimental version moved to unstable.
Things could be a lot worse; the package description mostly avoids
leaning on the long-gone package bonnie for its explanations (apart
from the blues guitar reference in the package name, which was never
explained in the package description for bonnie in the first place;
that's just more material for http://wiki.debian.org/WhyTheName). So
you could close this bug just by dropping that last paragraph, but my
patch nitpicks it some more:
Description: Hard drive benchmark suite.
^ ^
Not a sentence, so don't punctuate it as one. The text below also
contravenes debian-l10n-english "house style" by using double spaces
between sentences (whitespace gets squeezed anyway in reformatted
versions like "http://packages.debian.org/sid/bonnie++";), but as it
happens my revised version avoids the issue.
It is called Bonnie++ because it was based on the Bonnie program. This
^^^^
This isn't much of an explanation for the name, so don't phrase it as
one. There is also a slight problem with "this program", referring
back to Bonnie++ (with a capital B); that's not the name of a program,
it's the name of the suite as a whole, which includes /usr/sbin/zcav
and so on.
program also tests performance with creating large numbers of files.
^^^^ ^^^^
This is slightly strange phrasing. If it's just saying that it
benchmarks file system performance as well as hard drives I would
recommend rephrasing it to be more like the manual.
Now includes zcav raw-read test program. A modern hard drive will have more
Not a sentence, and cobwebby - "now" is since Woody, and "modern"
means "non-antique".
sectors in the outer tracks because they are longer. The hard drive will
have a number (often more than 8) of zones where each zone has the same
number of sectors (due to the need for an integral number of sectors per
track). This program allows you to determine the levels of performance
provided by different zones and store them in a convenient format for gnuplot.
Problems:
1) slightly awkward phrasing (for instance, what's all this about a
number of zones where each zone has a number?);
2) lopsidedness: why so many technical details for zcav when there
were none at all for bonnie++ itself?
3) irrelevance: none of this information about zones and sectors will
help users decide whether they need to install the package.
Then the really cobwebby bit:
.
This is the experimental version. It's not ready to replace the 1.x series
in time for Lenny but will be for Lenny+1. The extra features (large file
support, better bon_csv2html, and support for zcav tests on multiple devices)
will make it worth using for some people.
Since none of this was important enough to be documented anywhere that
I can see *inside* the package I'll assume it can safely be dropped.
So how about:
Description: hard drive benchmark suite
Based on the old Bonnie benchmark, Bonnie++ is a toolkit for testing
hard drive and file system performance.
.
As well as bonnie++ itself and some output filters, the suite provides
some other benchmarking tools including zcav, which can compare the
raw-read performance of different zones on a drive, and gives output
suitable for gnuplot.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages bonnie++ depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-35
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-4
ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-4
bonnie++ recommends no packages.
bonnie++ suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
--- control.old 2008-08-19 09:36:47.000000000 +0100
+++ control.new 2012-11-16 18:11:48.150723932 +0000
@@ -11,17 +11,11 @@
Conflicts: zcav, bonnie, bonnie++
Replaces: zcav, bonnie
Provides: zcav, bonnie
-Description: Hard drive benchmark suite.
- It is called Bonnie++ because it was based on the Bonnie program. This
- program also tests performance with creating large numbers of files.
- Now includes zcav raw-read test program. A modern hard drive will have more
- sectors in the outer tracks because they are longer. The hard drive will
- have a number (often more than 8) of zones where each zone has the same
- number of sectors (due to the need for an integral number of sectors per
- track). This program allows you to determine the levels of performance
- provided by different zones and store them in a convenient format for gnuplot.
+Description: hard drive benchmark suite
+ Based on the old Bonnie benchmarker, Bonnie++ is a toolkit for testing
+ hard drive and file system performance.
.
- This is the experimental version. It's not ready to replace the 1.x series
- in time for Lenny but will be for Lenny+1. The extra features (large file
- support, better bon_csv2html, and support for zcav tests on multiple devices)
- will make it worth using for some people.
+ As well as bonnie++ itself and some output filters, the suite provides
+ some other benchmarking tools including zcav, which can compare the
+ raw-read performance of different zones on a drive, and gives output
+ suitable for gnuplot.
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Source: bonnie++
Source-Version: 1.97
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
bonnie++, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Russell Coker <[email protected]> (supplier of updated bonnie++ package)
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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:26:55 +1100
Source: bonnie++
Binary: bonnie++
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 1.97
Distribution: wheezy
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Russell Coker <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Russell Coker <[email protected]>
Description:
bonnie++ - Hard drive benchmark suite
Closes: 643821 660564 669124 687668 693483
Changes:
bonnie++ (1.97) wheezy; urgency=medium
.
* Fix a CSV column alignment bug in the case where -s0 is used. Bump the
data format version to 1.97. Thanks to Brian Keefer for reporting this.
Also added the concurrency and seed fields to the header.
Closes: #660564, #669124
* Use a const pointer for the large file test.
* zcav.8 documents the maximum value of -s
* Made the zcav deefault block size 512M to cope with new disks that can
sustain >200MB/s. Also documented this.
* Made zcav not SEGV when the -c option is used.
Closes: #687668
* Describe the units for the plain text output in bonnie++.8.
Closes: #643821
* Removed the outdated section in the description which referred to Lenny.
Closes: #693483
* Fixed most of the HTML validation errors in the output of bon_csv2html.
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