On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 05:03:52PM -0800, Andy Grover wrote: > Hi Nick and all, > > Fileio backstore appears to be able to also use block devices directly. > This is a duplication of iblock, except iblock is using the async > submit_bio() instead of blocking vfs_readv/writev calls. > > Is one of these going to be generally better than the other, so maybe we > could drop one? > > If not, what's the guidance for how users should pick between the two > backstores? If you use a block device use iblock - it's generall going to be a lot faster and more efficient. If you want to use regular files use the file backend. That naming should make it kinda obvious, except for the weird "i" in iblock that still keeps confusing me. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
