Re: Ext4 benchmarks

["Jose R. Santos" <jrs@us.ibm.com>]

Jean-Pierre Dion wrote:
> Hi Jose,
>
> thank you for the feedback.
>
> We took your remarks into account and we are doing some perfs with
> iozone (close to desktop activity, mono-thread) and ffsb (allows to run 
> benchs
> in a multi-thread activity like a server does, different blocks sizes...).
>
> We compare ext3 and ext4 (with extents, w/ and w/o del alloc...)...
>
> We will publish the results on bullopensource.org
>   

Hi Jean-Pierre,

While it may be to late for the purposes of your OLS paper, one thing 
that doesn't seem to be getting much attention is the performance of a 
file system while doing many meta-data operations or throughput testing 
during heavy journal log activity.  I believe that IOzone is very 
limited in testing this and FFSB isn't much better at it either.  
Eventually, I plan to add support in FFSB to create workload profile 
were one can select a weight balance of these types of operations.

Is this something that you are already doing for this round of testing?

-JRS