On Fri, Oct 05 2007, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 08:48:53AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > I'd like to second Davids emails here, this is a serious problem. Having > > a reproducible test case lowers the barrier for getting the problem > > fixed by orders of magnitude. It's the difference between the problem > > getting fixed in a day or two and it potentially lingering for months, > > because email ping-pong takes forever and "the test team has moved on to > > other tests, we'll let you know the results of test foo in 3 weeks time > > when we have a new slot on the box" just removing any developer > > motivation to work on the issue. > > I vaguely remembered something called orasim, so I went looking for it. > I found http://oss.oracle.com/~wcoekaer/orasim/ which is dated from > 2004, and I found http://oss.oracle.com/projects/orasimjobfiles/ which > seems to be a stillborn project. Is there anything else I should know > about orasim? ;-) I don't know much about orasim, except that internally we're trying to use fio for that instead. As far as I know, it was a project that was never feature complete (or completed all together, for that matter). -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html