• by shanemhansen on 4/20/2024, 1:16:40 AM

    I do think this was well written and informative. I have a request (I know I know another entitled non customer).

    Why not tell me how fast they are supposed to be? I hear "they are so fast it sounds like a brag but no really they are super fast" and I just want to know: how fast? I did 2-3 searches and didn't find an answer.

    Google publishes instructions for benchmarking via fio. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/benchmarking-loc...

    I understand more than most just how variable these results can be but I've always appreciated that the gcp docs essentially give customers repro steps for confirming performance.

  • by EdSchouten on 4/20/2024, 2:12:16 AM

    I think Linux should go the FreeBSD/macOS route of completely deprecating major/minor numbers. Just treat stat.st_rdev as a fully opaque identifier.