Tux3 Report: How fast can we fsync?

[Richard Weinberger]

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Christian Stroetmann
<stroetmann at ontolab.com> wrote:
> On the 2nd of May 2015 12:26, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> Aloha everybody
>
>> On Friday, May 1, 2015 6:07:48 PM PDT, David Lang wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, 1 May 2015, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, May 1, 2015 8:38:55 AM PDT, Dave Chinner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, yes - I never claimed XFS is a general purpose filesystem.  It
>>>>> is a high performance filesystem. Is is also becoming more relevant
>>>>> to general purpose systems as low cost storage gains capabilities
>>>>> that used to be considered the domain of high performance storage...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> OK. Well, Tux3 is general purpose and that means we care about single
>>>> spinning disk and small systems.
>>>
>>>
>>> keep in mind that if you optimize only for the small systems you may not
>>> scale as well to the larger ones.
>>
>>
>> Tux3 is designed to scale, and it will when the time comes. I look forward
>> to putting Shardmap through its billion file test in due course. However,
>> right now it would be wise to stay focused on basic functionality suited to
>> a workstation because volunteer devs tend to have those. After that, phones
>> are a natural direction, where hard core ACID commit and really smooth file
>> ops are particularly attractive.
>>
>
> Has anybody else a deja vu?

Yes, the onto-troll strikes again...

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Thanks,
//richard