Re: Again, some bad Reiser4 (ReiserFS) 'reviews'

[Peter Nelson <pnelson@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Dieter Nützel wrote:

> http://rufus.hackish.org/wiki/2.6FileSystemBenchmarks
>
> Greetings,
>     Dieter

Hi, sorry for the late reply, but I've been on vacation for the past 
month.  When I originally ran these benchmarks a few months ago I had 
posted them to the LKML and this list, but it was linked to a different 
website (which has been renamed a few times now).  After a good amount 
of discussion on the LKML, this benchmark was actually what prompted 
Hans "to add a nice little optimization for compiles to Reiser4 as a 
result of thinking about compile benchmarks" (sorting by the last 
character).  Anyway, I'm going to be building a new system in around 1 
months time which will be the perfect opportunity to rerun all these 
benchmarks.  If anyone has suggestions on how to make the test better, 
feel free to pass them along.  The thing I'd be most interested in 
testing is if there's a way to flush file caches to see how much of a 
difference having the file cached in ram compared to reading off disk makes.

-Peter Nelson