Re: [PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib

Matt Mackall
2003-06-01T01:24:51Z

On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 06:22:21PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote:
>
> The only way I could think of was perhaps using a load on another disk
> (io_other which is in contest) that is using jffs2 when the contest baseline
> is running on a normal filesystem - this has shown very little differences
> between filesystems normally. Otherwise if everything in contest is run on
> jffs2 it would affect every layer and hard to be sure you had a control to
> compare with.

Timing on jffs2 is notoriously unrepeatable anyway - it's fully log
structured rather than journalled so it behaves a little differently.

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