IOR is a file system testing tool designed to work in a clustered environment. Below is the usage instructions /*****************************************************************************\ * * * Copyright (c) 2003, The Regents of the University of California * * See the file COPYRIGHT for … Continue reading
Lustre is a parallel distributed file system which provides high performance capabilities and open licensing, it is often used in supercomputers and extremely large scale hosting facilities (think Netflix via their 3rd party hosts). Generally, most of the worlds largest … Continue reading
Over at alephnull they’ve put together a really nice set of file system benchmarks, tracking all softs of various options which can improve and hurt performance when running in various mdraid configurations. From their site: Linux Software RAID Performance Comparisons … Continue reading