Re: [Ext2-devel] ext2/ialloc.c cleanup

[Andrew Morton]

Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> > It may be possible to hack the test data into ext2 by creating a filesystem
> > with the same number of block groups as the test FFS filesystem with the
> > Smith workload.  It may also not be valid for our needs, as we are playing
> > with the actual group selection algorithm, so real pathnames may give us
> > a different layout.
> 
> Umm...  What was the block and fragment sizes in their tests?

Size: 			502M
Fragment size:		1k
Block size:		8k
Max cluster size:	56k

I haven't been trying to recreate the Smith tests, BTW.  Just using
it as a representative workload and something which is worth
optimising for.