Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932597AbWHAJ5I (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 05:57:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932602AbWHAJ5I (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 05:57:08 -0400 Received: from fw5.argo.co.il ([194.90.79.130]:1031 "EHLO argo2k.argo.co.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932597AbWHAJ5H (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Aug 2006 05:57:07 -0400 Message-ID: <44CF256F.1020605@argo.co.il> Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:57:03 +0300 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Andree CC: Adrian Ulrich , nate.diller@gmail.com, dlang@digitalinsight.com, vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl, ipso@snappymail.ca, reiser@namesys.com, lkml@lpbproductions.com, jeff@garzik.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion] References: <20060801090947.GA2974@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20060801090947.GA2974@merlin.emma.line.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 01 Aug 2006 09:57:05.0987 (UTC) FILETIME=[D8700930:01C6B550] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 785 Lines: 20 Matthias Andree wrote: > > No, it is valid to run the test on commodity hardware, but if you (or > the benchmark rather) is claiming "transactions", I tend to think > "ACID", and I highly doubt any 200 GB SATA drive manages 3000 > synchronous writes per second without causing either serious > fragmentation or background block moving. > You are assuming 1 transaction = 1 sync write. That's not true. Databases and log filesystems can get much more out of a disk write. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/