On 1/28/2012 9:48 AM, Adrian Minta wrote:

Nice article about XFS improvements: http://tinyurl.com/7pvr9ju

The "article" is strictly a badly written summary of the video. But, the video was great. Until watching this I'd never seen Dave in a photo or video, though I correspond with him regularly on the XFS list. Nice to finally put a face and voice to a name.

One of many reasons the summary is badly written is the use of present tense when referring to XFS deficiencies, specifically the part about EXT4 being 20-50x faster with some metadata operations. The author writes as if this was the current state of affairs right up to Dave's recent presentation. The author misread or misinterpreted the slides or Dave's speech, and apparently has no personal knowledge of Linux filesystem development. This 20-50x EXT4 advantage disappeared in 2009, almost 3 years ago. I've mentioned many of these "new" improvements on this list over the past 2-3 years. They're not "new".

We have an "author" writing about something he knows nothing about, and making lots of mistakes in his summary. This seems to be a trend with Phoronix. They are decided desktop-only oriented. Thus when they attempt to write about the big stuff they fail badly.

And the title? Juvenile attempt to draw readers. Pretty pathetic. The "article" was all about Dave's presentation. Dave's 50 minute presentation took 2 "shots" of 10-15 seconds each at EXT4 and BTRFS. A better title would have been simply something like "XFS dev details improvements at Linux.Conf.Au 2012."

-- Stan