On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 12:49:29PM +0100, Roger Willcocks wrote: > On Tue, 2016-07-05 at 14:34 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Wang Shilong <wshilong@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I understand that this is single thread Limit, but I guess there are some > > > other Limit here, because even single thread creating 50W files speed > > > is twice than 200W files. > > > > Watts or Wolframs (tungsten)? > > > > 50W!=50000. You could write it as 50k and 200k. It's unlikely to get > > confused with 50K and 200K, which are temperatures, because of > > context. But W makes no sense. > > > > > > > > I suspect it's an abbreviation for the (Chinese) unit 'wan' > > https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Chinese-people-count-in-units-of-10-000 > > so it makes perfect sense but it's not an SI unit. Thanks, Roger - it does make sense now the unit being used has been explained. This is a canonical example of how being explicit about units being used and what they mean is of prime importance to understanding what each other are saying. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
