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FSL's experience in
file systems and storage benchmarking demonstrates that Filebench workload generator
is a very useful tool for emulating a variety of file system workloads.
| Title | Comments |
| FAST '09 BoF: How to Cheat at Benchmarking | Slides |
| First File and Storage Systems Benchmarking Workshop | Summary in USENIX ;login: |
| Title | Comments |
| Auto-pilot | Benchmark automation tools |
| The FSL-er's Guide to File System and Storage Benchmarking | |
| The SNIA IOTTA Trace Repository | |
| UC Santa Cruz Storage Systems Research Center | Sponsors of the 1st File and Storage Systems Benchmarking Workshop |
| Title | Formats | Comments |
| A Nine Year Study of File System and Storage Benchmarking | PS PDF | Online data appendix |
| Follow-up: Notes on a Nine Year Study of File System and Storage Benchmarking (Byte and Switch) | ||
| Follow-up: Lies, Damn Lies and File System Benchmarks (Linux Magazine) | ||
| Follow-up: A Survey of Nine Years' Worth of Benchmarking Results (Sun System News) | ||
| Auto-pilot: A Platform for System Software Benchmarking | PS PDF | |
| Buttress: A Toolkit for Flexible and High Fidelity I/O Benchmarking | ||
| Cutting Corners: Workbench Automation for Server Benchmarking | ||
| Findings from the First Annual File and Storage Systems Benchmarking Workshop | PS PDF | Initial workshop report |
| Generating Realistic Impressions for File-System Benchmarking | ||
| Lies, Damned Lies, and File System Benchmarks | PS PDF | |
| Towards Realistic File-System Benchmarks with CodeMRI |
Benchmarks:
A $ indicates that the benchmark is not free
| Title | Comments |
| aio-stress | |
| Bonnie | Google Code. Make sure to set working file size properly. |
| dbench | SMB, NFS, iSCSI, and local FS workload generator |
| Filebench | Flexible workload generator. Employs extensive WML language to describe. workloads |
| fio | Flexible I/O Tester |
| Fstress | NFS file service benchmark. |
| io_thrash | Find io_thrash in the list of files available. Portable database workload for I/O subsystem performance measurements. |
| Iometer | Workload generator. |
| IOzone | Workload generator. |
| Jetstress | Microsoft Exchange I/O workload |
| Moojit's DataMover Storage | I/O generation tool with GUIs that validate enterprise storage and networking subsystems $ |
| Open Storage Toolkit | iSCSI and OSD reference implementations, synthetic workload generation, workload characterization, and I/O tracing and replay |
| Oracle I/O Numbers (ORION) | |
| PostMark | NFS mail server workload. |
| Re-AIM-7 | Updated AIM 7 benchmark. |
| SPECsfs | NFS and CIFS server benchmark. $ |
| Sprite LFS Large File Benchmark | |
| Storage Performance Council (SPC) | $ |
| The Flexible Filesystem Benchmark (FFSB) | Workload generator. |
| Threaded I/O Tester (tiobench) | |
| Transaction Processing Council (TPC) | Database workloads. $ |
| vdbench | Workload generator for disk, tape, and file systems (Solaris Sparc and X86, Windows, AIX, Linux, HP, and OS/X). Can also perform data validation and I/O replay. |