On Mon 27 May 2019 03:44:59 PM CEST, Anton Nefedov wrote: >> I think in general optimizing for SSDs should probably be the >> default. HDDs are slow anyway, so whoever uses them probably doesn’t >> care about performance too much anyway...? Whereas people using SSDs >> probably do. But as I said, we can and should always make a separate >> decision for each case. > > Overall it looks good to me but I wonder how do we ensure both > variants are test covered? Need a blockdev option to enforce the mode?
Max talked about a 30% slowdown on HDDs so I suppose it makes sense to have an option to change that even if we optimize for SSDs by default. Berto