Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-24 Thread Sander
Mike Ramsey wrote (ao): Depends on who you talk to. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ocz-ssd-vertex-intel-solid-state,7127.html OCZ Says Its New Vertex SSD Beats Intel's X25-E I am not taking sides. I am just saying that the SSD market is fluid. Read and write speeds specs mean

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-24 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jun 24 2009, Mike Ramsey wrote: Stephan von Krawczynski skraw at ithnet.com writes: [snip] Can someone explain to a quite naive person like me why one should be interested in SSDs that perform worse than Intel? Why shouldn't I just buy the best-performing product? This is a

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-24 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:47 +, Mike Ramsey mikejram...@comcast.net wrote: Wil Reichert wil.reichert at gmail.com writes: My suggestion is either to show where their benchmarks are in err, I did this, didn't I? 1. Vertex with write cache enabled; disabled would have seen a 2X

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-24 Thread Mike Ramsey
Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm writes: On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:47 +, Mike Ramsey MikeJRamsey at comcast.net wrote: Wil Reichert wil.reichert at gmail.com writes: My suggestion is either to show where their benchmarks are in err, I did this, didn't I? 1. Vertex with

Re: Phoronix article slaming BTRFS

2009-06-24 Thread Mike Ramsey
Jens Axboe jens.axboe at oracle.com writes: On Wed, Jun 24 2009, Mike Ramsey wrote: Stephan von Krawczynski skraw at ithnet.com writes: [snip] Depends on who you talk to. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ocz-ssd-vertex-intel-solid-state,7127.html OCZ Says Its New Vertex SSD Beats

Re: Read errors while benchmarking

2009-06-24 Thread jim owens
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: Currently, btrfs doesn't support using direct I/O for read. Is anyone working on this? It /is/ a rather basic feature, and testing with iozone would be nice. Yes, I am working on it. I will be away for the next 10 days but hope to have something for read tests