The lost art of benchmarking was Re: Reiser4

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Tue Sep 21 22:00:22 UTC 2004


On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:55:36PM +0200, Matias Feliciano wrote:
> OK, prefer reiser4 since it's the best FS for _your_ benchmarks.
> LWN write very good/interesting articles even with bias benchmarks
> (which i don't really care for file system).

The LWN benchmark implies the disk was partitioned and each fs got one of
the two 2G partitions if so then its worthless because there is often over
20% speed difference between different parts of a disk





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