On Friday 07 January 2005 07:07, death rince wrote: > Hi, Hi. I figured that you might need another response as most of this thread just turned into a flame war. ;)
> I was browsing through benchmarks of Reiserfs and > other filesystem when I came across this, > > http://linuxgazette.net/102/piszcz.html > > Can anyone please give an insight, behind the > rationale of such tests and what exactly it signifies > in terms of working of the kernel with respect to > different filesystems. I am not too knowledgeable with > working of OS and kernel to be able to understand it The rational of the test? I can kind of explain that as I have previously made the same false assumptions - not that I'm am enlightened enough to be able to identify all of them. The biggest false assumption is that benchmarking serial activity to a filesystem is a relevant benchmark for desktop purposes. In fact, I'm not sure it's really relevant to any activity, except backups perhaps. Second false assumption... 001] Create 10,000 files with touch in a directory. 004] Create 10,000 directories with mkdir in a directory. The rationale is to measure which fs is faster at what atomic operation, but the benchmark has assumed that creating a directory and creating a file should take the same amount of time. Hmm.. I really have nothing else to say. I have this terrible urge to tell you about my experiences with various file system, but I won't yield to them. ;) I guess all you can really do is try a few out and come to your own conclusions. Regards, Jason Stubbs -- [email protected] mailing list
