Filebench [PSARC/2007/448 FastTrack timeout 08/16/2007]

[Darren J Moffat]

eric kustarz wrote:
> 
> On Aug 3, 2007, at 2:49 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote:
> 
>> eric kustarz wrote:
>>> Sure thing.  If we allow benchmarks to have their own directory (such 
>>> as /usr/benchmarks/libmicro/), then we can allow that benchmark to do 
>>> what it wants in that directory.  This would make porting much 
>>> easier, less mangling of the source.
>>> It turns out that in filebench there is just a simple #define that 
>>> specifies where everything under /usr/lib/filebench lives.  So moving 
>>> from platform to platform will be easy (if /usr/lib/filebench is not 
>>> an option).
>>
>> Specifically for filebench is there are reason to spread it around 
>> with parts in /usr/benchmarks/ and parts in /usr/lib ?  I don't yet 
>> see any value in that.
>>
> 
> Having to use /usr/lib was historical (back when we had 
> /usr/bin/filebench).
> 
> If others would like, i can certainly put everything in 
> /usr/benchmarks/filebench.  That might be a nice precedent to set for 
> the /usr/benchmarks directory.

That seems like a good precedent to me for /usr/benchmarks/

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Darren J Moffat