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From: maurice <mhilarius@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to stress test an RAID 6 array?
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:16:23 -0600
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On 10/3/2011 7:26 AM, Marcin M. Jessa wrote:
> Hi guys.
>
> After a rather long thread with many questions about my failed RAID 
> array I'm trying to give it another shot.
> ..
>
> Now I would like to stress test the array and see whether it would 
> fail again or not. What would be the best way to do that?
FIO is a good tester and benchmark program.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/fio/

There are some example scripts packed in the distribution.
One simulates IOMeter server test and creates a decent loading.


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Maurice Hilarius
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