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From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: dm-writeboost: Progress Report
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:09:03 +0000
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On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 04:27:25PM +0900, Akira Hayakawa wrote:
> Hi, DM Guys, 
> 
> This is the latest progress report of dm-writeboost.

Do you have any benchmarks yet?  Which situations does it out perform
bcache and dm-cache?

> 4. Add some codes to Joe's device-mapper-test-suite
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Joe maintains a testing framework in his Github repo.
> I merged some test codes for Writeboost but I don't work on this project
> recently. I will add more code later.

Thanks for adding to dmtest, you also did a couple of little tidy ups
that were useful to me.

> 5. Add regression tests under testing/ of my Github tree
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Joe's test-suite is really well-designed but it has too many things before stand-by.

I'm not sure what you mean here?

- Joe