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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: vfs whitebox test
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:09:30 -0800
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On 25 Nov 2003 08:46:22 -0700 Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre@ieee.org> wrote:

| > Anybody already pull together some more closely interactive way of
| > trying creative patterns of calls thru the vfs layer?
| 
| >From the linux-fsdevel 2003-10-07 archives "Re: fs test suite", we know
| possibilities, perhaps sorted now from most to least accessible,
| include:
| 
| http://ltp.sourceforge.net/

fsstress e.g.

| http://www.iozone.org

Lots of file I/O, little VFS metadata activity.

| http://www.connectathon.org/
| 
| http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/cruft/

fsx-linux in particular

| http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/
| 
| http://www.google.com/search?q=postmark+linux

postmark typically works with many small files and does more VFS
metadata operations than a workload like IOzone or tiobench (sf.net).

| http://www.google.com/search?q=bonnie+linux
| 
| By now I can testify that at a glance these particular links do Not say
| if they point only to ways of running up in the stratospheric layer of
| open/ read/ write/ close, or not.


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~Randy
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