Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161090AbXBOTsf (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:48:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161092AbXBOTsf (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:48:35 -0500 Received: from tmailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.23]:56206 "EHLO tmailer.gwdg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161090AbXBOTse (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:48:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:46:34 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Andi Kleen cc: Juan Piernas Canovas , sfaibish , kernel list Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] DualFS: File System with Meta-data and Data Separation In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 663 Lines: 19 On Feb 15 2007 21:38, Andi Kleen wrote: > >Also I would expect your design to be slow for metadata read intensive >workloads. E.g. have you tried to boot a root partition with dual fs? >That's a very important IO benchmark for desktop Linux systems. Did someone say metadata intensive? Try kernel tarballs, they're a perfect workload. Tons of directories, and even more files here and there. Works wonders. Jan -- - 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/