On Monday 08 September 2008 18:32:14 Ric Wheeler wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:49:42AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > >> Not to mention the problem that developers seem to have faster machines > >> than average user, but slower than the enterprise and future generation > >> CPU's. So any tuning value seems to get out of date fast. > > > > So where do my fellow developers get these fast systems from? :) > > Actually, my experience is that most linux file system developers have > really poking, aged hardware with little to no cutting edge storage (or > even cutting edge commercial class storage). Testing file systems on lap > tops and desktops with old CPUs, no DRAM and 40GB drives does not even > reflect a typical home user these days :-) > Yeah but it means they really notice when the algorithm has been improved. It's character-building, or summat. ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
