LWN.net article: creating 1 billion files -> Tests we did

[Peter Grandi]

[ ... useless run of something misrepresented as a test ... ]

>> Test run on a dual Opteron quad core, 16 GB RAM, kernel
>> 2.6.32.11 x86_64...

> This is a test of storage system performance, and you left out
> the storage array specs?  By doing so it seems you're stating
> the underlying storage is not relevant to the results. [ ... ]

This is only one of the several aspects of the waste of time
that was misrepresented as a storage test, even if it is one of
the funniest.