Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the " 'official' point of view"expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Tue Aug 01 2006 - 05:55:01 EST


Matthias Andree wrote:

No, it is valid to run the test on commodity hardware, but if you (or
the benchmark rather) is claiming "transactions", I tend to think
"ACID", and I highly doubt any 200 GB SATA drive manages 3000
synchronous writes per second without causing either serious
fragmentation or background block moving.

You are assuming 1 transaction = 1 sync write. That's not true. Databases and log filesystems can get much more out of a disk write.


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