From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Reiser4. BEST FILESYSTEM EVER. Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:07:28 -0700 Message-ID: <4615C780.5040407@zytor.com> References: <46157B5B.5000602@gmail.com> <1175817921.18400.1183285196@webmail.messagingengine.com> <461592FB.5060507@zytor.com> <1175819681.20754.1183287946@webmail.messagingengine.com> <461596DE.2020802@zytor.com> <1175823288.25662.1183293506@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1175823288.25662.1183293506@webmail.messagingengine.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: johnrobertbanks@fastmail.fm Cc: Ignatich , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org johnrobertbanks@fastmail.fm wrote: > Hi Peter, > > You say that the results may be accurate, but not relevant. > NO, I said that whether they're accurate is another matter. > If they are accurate,.... THEN they are obviously very relevant. Crap-o-la. Whether or not they're relevant depends on how well they happen to reflect your particular usage pattern. There are NO benchmarks which are relevant to all users. Understanding whether or not a benchmark is relevant to one's particular application is one of the trickiest things about benchmarks. -hpa