filebench for example
On 4/17/07, Torrey McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tony Galway wrote:
>
> I had previously undertaken a benchmark that pits "out of box"
> performance of UFS via SVM, VxFS and ZFS but was waylaid due to some
> outstanding availability issues in ZFS. These have been taken care of,
> and I am once again undertaking this challenge on behalf of my
> customer. The idea behind this benchmark is to show
>
> a. How ZFS might displace the current commercial volume and file
> system management applications being used.
>
> b. The learning curve of moving from current volume management
> products to ZFS.
>
> c. Performance differences across the different volume management
> products.
>
> VDBench is the test bed of choice as this has been accepted by the
> customer as a telling and accurate indicator of performance. The last
> time I attempted this test it had been suggested that VDBench is not
> appropriate to testing ZFS, I cannot see that being a problem, VDBench
> is a tool – if it highlights performance problems, then I would think
> it is a very effective tool so that we might better be able to fix
> those deficiencies.
>
First, VDBench is a Sun internal and partner only tool so you might not
get much response on this list.
Second, VDBench is great for testing raw block i/o devices. I think a
tool that does file system testing will get you better data.
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