Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 02:24:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 02:24:00 -0500 Received: from vasquez.zip.com.au ([203.12.97.41]:29450 "EHLO vasquez.zip.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 9 Nov 2001 02:23:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3BEB8341.2671AEDD@zip.com.au> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 23:18:25 -0800 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.14-pre8 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Viro CC: Andreas Dilger , ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, lkml Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] ext2/ialloc.c cleanup In-Reply-To: <20011108235632.D907@lynx.no> 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 Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > It may be possible to hack the test data into ext2 by creating a filesystem > > with the same number of block groups as the test FFS filesystem with the > > Smith workload. It may also not be valid for our needs, as we are playing > > with the actual group selection algorithm, so real pathnames may give us > > a different layout. > > Umm... What was the block and fragment sizes in their tests? Size: 502M Fragment size: 1k Block size: 8k Max cluster size: 56k I haven't been trying to recreate the Smith tests, BTW. Just using it as a representative workload and something which is worth optimising for. - 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/