Re: New Benchmark tools, lookie looky........

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2000 - 11:49:35 EST


On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Larry McVoy wrote:

> If you do all this, write a paper, Usenix loves this junk.

Sorry dyslexic.........

> > How can LMbench access things that I can but a FS can not?
>
> raw disks? block disks? both work.

Sorry, what I forgot to tell you is that I am doing direct access at the
IO level. This is underneath the driver. This is in the realm of
bit-banging but with sanity.

Andre Hedrick
The Linux ATA/IDE guy

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