Another XFS Fan

[Joseph Hall]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Gabriel Gunderson <gabe at gundy.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 21:15 -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote:
>  > I didn't compare performance because all I cared about was space
>  > efficiency.
>
>  I'm not commenting on the test here (I've never done any testing of my
>  own and haven't really read up on it), but I thought this sentence was
>  interesting.  When it comes to disks, there are two things you can't
>  ignore - disk access is the biggest bottleneck in almost any system and
>  disks space is getting cheap.
>
>  I was caught off guard because I expected to read, "I didn't compare
>  space efficiency because all I cared about was performance."

Certainly a valid concern, but I'm kind of poor. Until drive space
goes from "cheap" to "free", I'm still interested in drive efficiency.

I'm also interested in performance, however. Assuming one had spare
hardware at hand, such as a classroom full of unused computers, what
would be a valid series of tests to run to evaluate efficiency?

-- 
Joseph
http://blog.josephhall.com/