Re: Tux3 Report: Faster than tmpfs, what?

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Tue May 14 2013 - 03:59:38 EST


Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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