Re: Reiser4 needs more testers

[Hans Reiser]

This was the parallel fsync benchmark?

Hans

markw@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> I've run through another test on STP with the latest snapshot against
> reiser4 and reiserfs for comparison.  Reiser4 still seems to be lagging
> behind reiserfs in our DBT-2 workload (the bigger number is better in
> the metric):
>
>          metric  url to test results
>          ------  ---------------------------------
> reiser4   1208    http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290774/
> reiserfs  1819    http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290775/
>
> Mark
>
> On 26 Mar, Hans Reiser wrote:
>  
>
> > We have one NFS related bug remaining, and one mmap all of memory 
> > related bug (and performance issue) that you can hit using iozone.  We 
> > will fix both of these in next week's snapshot, they were both multi-day 
> > bug fixes.  When they are fixed, unless users/distros find bugs next 
> > week we will submit it for inclusion in the -mm and then the official 
> > kernel.
> >
> > We hope it is now fairly stable for average users if you avoid those two 
> > issues (we need to get rid of those dire warnings about its 
> > stability...., we will remember that next snapshot....;-) )
> >
> > We need a lot more real user testers, because we have run out of scripts 
> > that can crash it, and there are distros that would like to ship it 
> > soon.  Please also complain to vitaly@xxxxxxxxxxx and ramon@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> > about poor documentation, etc., ....
> >
> > The new reiser4 snapshot (against 2.6.5-rc2) is available at
> >
> > http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.26/
> >    
>
>
>
>  


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Hans

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