[Disksim-users] status of disksim

[Michael Meeks]

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 15:07 +0100, Markus Schiltknecht wrote:
> You don't mention disksim at all on your iogrind website.

	That is a bug, please do fix the wiki page to add a link (I could have
sworn it was there, it's prominently mentioned in the source README
etc.).

>  Why do you clam it's inaccurate, while disksim is said to be
> quite accurate? Did you drop certain capabilities of disksim or
> is this because of your broken 100Gb disk model?

	My 100Gb disk model, produced by tweaking the umpteen tweakables in
there. In the process of tweaking them, some pretty anomylous results
were generated, leading me to suspect some rather un-tested and
under-constrained validation of that file. Of course, my 100Gb disk is
all one zone (eg.) ;-)

	Of course, using the more simple disk models - such as constant seek
time data was not useful for what I wanted ... anyhow ;-) if someone
that really understands all the tweakables can produce a reasonable
model of a reasonably modern disk that'd be most helpful.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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