From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:39:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:39:17 -0400 Received: from idiom.com ([216.240.32.1]:32523 "EHLO idiom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 10 May 2001 10:39:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3AFAA802.B36D538C@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 07:38:58 -0700 From: Hans Reiser X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14cl i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pekka Pietikainen CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yura@namesys.com, elena@namesys.com, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3 In-Reply-To: <200105092125.f49LPew13300@jen.americas.sgi.com> <20010510131945.B11927@netppl.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I would encourage all of you to consider using a fractal fileset generator such as reiserfs_fract_tree.c such as we use for mongo.pl which we use for internal benchmarking. You can get a copy at www.namesys.com in the benchmarking section, and then tune it as suits your needs. I think that one needs randomly generated non-uniform sized files and directories and directory trees to have a good benchmark. We gratefully accept enhancements of it. Now that we are stable we can go back to tuning things like large file performance. Hans