[pve-devel] [PATCH common] tools: file_set_contents: use syswrite instead of print

[Dietmar Maurer]

Please can you add the column showing write amplification using dd instead of file_set_contents, so that we can also see the minimal write amplf. from sqlite.

> The table below illustrates the drastic reduction in write
> amplification when writing files of different sizes to `/etc/pve/` using
> `file_set_contents`:
> 
>            print                big_writes+print     big_writes+syswrite
> data size  written     amplif.  written     amplif.  written    amplif.
>     1 KiB      48 KiB     48.0      45 KiB     45.0     41 KiB     41.0
>     2 KiB      48 KiB     24.0      45 KiB     22.5     62 KiB     31.0
>     4 KiB      82 KiB     20.5      80 KiB     20.0     73 KiB     18.3
>     8 KiB     121 KiB     15.1      90 KiB     11.3     89 KiB     11.1
>    16 KiB     217 KiB     13.6     146 KiB      9.1    113 KiB      7.1
>    32 KiB     506 KiB     15.8     314 KiB      9.8    158 KiB      4.9
>    64 KiB    1472 KiB     23.0     826 KiB     12.9    259 KiB      4.0
>   128 KiB    5585 KiB     43.6    3765 KiB     29.4    452 KiB      3.5
>   256 KiB   20424 KiB     79.8   10743 KiB     42.0   2351 KiB      9.2
>   512 KiB   86715 KiB    169.4   43650 KiB     85.3   3204 KiB      6.3
>  1024 KiB  369568 KiB    360.9  187496 KiB    183.1  15845 KiB     15.5
>