Re: some testing questions

["Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com>]

Hello

On Friday 11 August 2006 21:44, Gasper Azman wrote:
> Hello everyone, especially the namesys team.
>
>
> I have been reading this list for quite some time, and saw that issues
> of fragmentation have again arisen. So, a decision was made to put the
> portage tree on a separate reiser4 partition, and to benchmark it over
> time.
>
> Because I know I'm not the smartest guy in the universe, I'm asking
> everyone here which data they would require (or want to see), how to
> obtain it (program names would suffice, but other advice will not go
> amiss) and how frequently the analysis is to be run. 

reiser4progs incluses a program measurefs.reiser4. It should be able to 
measure tree fragmentation. I am not sure how does portage tree evolve, but 
maybe it could be interesting too see how does reiser4 tree fragmentation 
change when filesystem is loaded regularly.

> Since this would be 
> a new partition with nothing but the portage tree, it is an ideal and
> clean environment for testing a specific feature of reiser4 (as has been
> frequently mentioned).
>
> I hope to make a small contribution to the development of IMHO the most
> promising filesystem since ext3. :)
>
>
>
> Keep it up,
>
>
> Gasper