Filesystem benchmarks

[Christopher Chan]

> And with a quick look the benchmark seems to make some simplifying
> assumptions that may or may not match your application needs.  He also
> did not report or tune any of the file systems mkfs params.

"Individual filesystem configuration is documented <a>here</a>." Points to:
http://www.untroubled.org/benchmarking/2004-04/filesystems.html
> 
> For example in the mke2fs man page: If omitted, mke2fs block- size is
> hueristically determined by the file system size and the expected
> usage of the filesystem (see the -T option)."  So we do not know
> exactly how his ext3 filesystems (and others) were tuned.  The
> hueristics could be researched and we could discover the resulting
> parameters but at this moment we do not exactly know.
> 
> To his credit he clearly exposes his method, data and goals.
> Very good stuff!
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