Ingo Molnar wrote:
Maybe a device mapper delay target or nbd + O_DIRECT can insert delays to make the workload more disk-like.

yeah. I'll hack a small timeout into loopback requests i think. But then real disk-platter effects are left out ... so it all comes down to eventually having to try it on real disks too :)

Having a random component in the timeout may increase realism.

hundred-disk boxes are noisy, though the blinkenlights are nice :)


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