On Thu, 11 Jul 2013, "Trent W. Buck" <[email protected]> wrote:
>  - Max claims bonnie++'s functionality is superseded by fio.
>    Russell, you maintain bonnie++, right? What's your opinion of fio?

Lots of people claim to have superceded Bonnie++/Bonnie.  The way you 
recognise success in free software development is when everyone else claims to 
have developed something better.

Fio appears to have a good feature set.  But Bonnie++ is still good for simple 
tests.

For more serious tests I prefer Postal, mail delivery really stresses a 
system.

>  - p 13 btrfs likes -o ssd if device speaks TRIM.

No, there's -o discard for BTRFS if you want to use TRIM.  I tried it and 
performance sucked badly, that seems to be the common experience.  The ssd 
option doesn't enable TRIM, it does other things.

>         ext4 likes noatime/nojournal, CFQ and discard.
>         CFQ is best for most things, then ROW.

Noatime is equally good for all filesystems.  I expect that the discard option 
on ext4 would have some similar performance issues to the same option on 
BTRFS.

>  - p 26 avoid btrfs/f2fs if OS can be reset by unscheduled power
>         outage or hardware watchdog, unless you have a BBU or
>         similar.  ext4 survives many more outages than btrfs/f2fs.

If you can reproduce a situation where a device commits all data that it 
claims to have committed and BTRFS has a problem with a power failure then 
that would be a bug and I'm sure that the developers would make fixing it a 
priority.

The BTRFS developers seem to be good about making their filesystem robust.

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