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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Roger Willcocks <roger@filmlight.ltd.uk>
Cc: "linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chris Murphy <lists@colorremedies.com>,
	Wang Shilong <wshilong@ddn.com>,
	"xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Bad Metadata performances for XFS?
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 09:05:35 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160706230535.GF12670@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1467805769.7631.249.camel@filmlight.ltd.uk>

On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 12:49:29PM +0100, Roger Willcocks wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 14:34 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Wang Shilong <wshilong@ddn.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I understand that this is single thread Limit, but I guess there are some
> > > other Limit here, because even single thread creating 50W files speed
> > > is twice than 200W files.
> > 
> > Watts or Wolframs (tungsten)?
> > 
> > 50W!=50000. You could write it as 50k and 200k. It's unlikely to get
> > confused with 50K and 200K, which are temperatures, because of
> > context. But W makes no sense.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> I suspect it's an abbreviation for the (Chinese) unit 'wan'
> 
> https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Chinese-people-count-in-units-of-10-000
> 
> so it makes perfect sense but it's not an SI unit.

Thanks, Roger - it does make sense now the unit being used has been
explained. This is a canonical example of how being explicit about
units being used and what they mean is of prime importance to
understanding what each other are saying.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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2016-07-04 22:52 ` Bad Metadata performances for XFS? Dave Chinner
2016-07-05  0:18   ` Dave Chinner
2016-07-05  1:43     ` Wang Shilong
2016-07-05  7:29       ` Dave Chinner
2016-07-05 20:34       ` Chris Murphy
2016-07-06 11:49         ` Roger Willcocks
2016-07-06 23:05           ` Dave Chinner [this message]

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