Tux3 Report: Faster than tmpfs, what?

[OGAWA Hirofumi]

Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com> writes:

>> Right. Because tux3 is not implementing fsync() yet. So, I did
>> 
>> 	grep -v Flush /usr/share/dbench/client.txt > client2.txt
>> 
>> Why is it important for comparing?
>
> Because nobody could reproduce your results without working that
> out. You didn't disclose that you'd made these changes, and that
> makes it extremely misleading as to what the results mean. Given the
> headline-grab nature of it, it's deceptive at best.
>
> I don't care how fast tux3 is - I care about being able to reproduce
> other people's results. Hence if you are going to report benchmark
> results comparing filesystems then you need to tell everyone exactly
> what you've tweaked and why, from the hardware all the way up to the
> benchmark config.

Thanks for adivce.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi at mail.parknet.co.jp>