Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 20:25:16 -0500
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: J?rn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>,
       "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, jmorris@intercode.com.au,
       linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] 1/2 central workspace for zlib
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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.

-- 
Matt Mackall : http://www.selenic.com : of or relating to the moon
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