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From: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
Subject: Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the " 'official' point of view"
 expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:57:03 +0300
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To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Cc: Adrian Ulrich <reiser4@blinkenlights.ch>, nate.diller@gmail.com, dlang@digitalinsight.com, vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl, ipso@snappymail.ca, reiser@namesys.com, lkml@lpbproductions.com, jeff@garzik.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

Matthias Andree wrote:
>
> No, it is valid to run the test on commodity hardware, but if you (or
> the benchmark rather) is claiming "transactions", I tend to think
> "ACID", and I highly doubt any 200 GB SATA drive manages 3000
> synchronous writes per second without causing either serious
> fragmentation or background block moving.
>
You are assuming 1 transaction = 1 sync write.  That's not true.  
Databases and log filesystems can get much more out of a disk write.


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