From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ravikiran G Thirumalai Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2]Extend ext3 filesystem limit from 8TB to 16TB Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:32:01 -0700 Message-ID: <20060417213201.GC3945@localhost.localdomain> References: <1143530126.11560.6.camel@openx2.frec.bull.fr> <1143568905.3935.13.camel@dyn9047017067.beaverton.ibm.com> <1143623605.5046.11.camel@openx2.frec.bull.fr> <1143682730.4045.145.camel@dyn9047017067.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060329175446.67149f32.akpm@osdl.org> <1144660270.5816.3.camel@openx2.frec.bull.fr> <20060410012431.716d1000.akpm@osdl.org> <1144941999.2914.1.camel@openx2.frec.bull.fr> <20060417210746.GB3945@localhost.localdomain> <1145308176.2847.90.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Laurent Vivier , Andrew Morton , Mingming Cao , Takashi Sato , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from ns1.siteground.net ([207.218.208.2]:46533 "EHLO serv01.siteground.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751285AbWDQVaz (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:30:55 -0400 To: Arjan van de Ven Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1145308176.2847.90.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:09:36PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 14:07 -0700, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > > > > > > I ran the same tests on a 16 core EM64T box very similar to the one > > you ran > > dbench on :). Dbench results on ext3 varies quite a bit. I couldn't > > get > > to a statistically significant conclusion For eg, > > > dbench is not a good performance benchmark. At all. Don't use it for > that ;) Agreed. (I did not mean to use it in the first place :). I was just trying to verify the benchmark results posted earlier) Thanks, Kiran