On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 02:14:41PM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > > > >And with a quick look the benchmark seems to make some simplifying > >assumptions that may or may not match your application needs. He also > >did not report or tune any of the file systems mkfs params. > > You can download the fsbench tarball. All the options used for mkfs will > be found in the dir prepfs in the file of the appropriate name for the > fs mode. .... > cat fsbench/prepfs/ext3o > mkfs="mke2fs -j -J size=400 -i 8192" > fs="ext3 -o noatime,data=ordered" > > > > >To his credit he clearly exposes his method, data and goals. > >Very good stuff! > > and gives the stuff needed to run the exact same thing too. Thanks for the follow up. I had downloaded the tarball but had not dissected it. I had looked at his data presentation not the internals of the tests and setup. As you say -- he "gives the stuff needed to run the exact same thing". And if you dig deeper there is even more data... Like I said: > >Very good stuff! http://untroubled.org/benchmarking/2004-04/ -- T o m M i t c h e l l /dev/null the ultimate in secure storage.