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+#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# measurements.txt - describe details of measuring the QCOW2 performance
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# author : Manuel Bentele
+# date : Aug 31, 2019
+# copyright: (c) 2019 Manuel Bentele
+#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Measurements have been done to check the read performance of the QCOW2
+implementation and compare them to qemu-nbd.
+
+All measurements were carried out on the following test environment:
+
+ - CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3225 CPU @ 3.30 GHz
+ - HDD: Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series
+ - RAM: 8GB RAM
+ - OS : Linux kernel 5.3.0-rc5
+ - FS: ext4
+ - QCOW2: 650 MB QCOW2 file with 64KB cluster size
+ - Block device benchmark: fio-3.15
+
+The log files of the measurements are stored in this folder and have the suffix
+*.log.