Filesystem benchmarks

[Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell]

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/


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