I'm interested in running some performance tests on the environment here to
help make judgements on future directions.  We've got both NFS and DFS.

The andrew benchmark is apparently a set of tests aimed at simulating and
measuring "real" filesystem use.

Apparently this is the reference to the original work.  Is it (the benchmark
code) available online somewhere?  How about the paper?

   J.H. Howard, M.L. Kazar, S.G. Menees, D.A. Nichols, M.
   Satyanarayanan, R.N. Sidebotham, and M.J. West, "Scale and
   Performance in a Distributed File System," ACM Transactions on
   Computer Systems, Vol. 6(1) (February, 1988).

Are there other test suites that are popular for this sort of measurement?
(and where can I get them?)

Thanks,

Jim Rowan          Distributed Computing Specialists         DCE/DFS Consulting
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