[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Get Filebench into Debian?

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Hi.  Reading the latest ;login: from USENIX, I came across a very
interesting article about Filebench[1], a file system benchmarking tool
for syntetic workloads created by Sun and made into free software more
than 10 years ago.  The project home is on Sourceforge[2] and I found it
on the ZFS on Linux github project[3] too.  The license is CDDL. :(

>From the article seem like a good tool to have around in Debian to check
out the relative performance of different file systems.  Anyone here
know if there are plans to introduce it into Debian?  Perhaps it would
be good to have included next to ZFS?

While reasearching the topic I came across several cases of filebench
being used to compare ZFS and btrfs[4,5].  I am sure there are others,
and provide them here in case you wonder why filebench would be
useful. :)

 [1] <URL: https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/spring2016/tarasov >
 [2] <URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/filebench/ >
 [3] <URL: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/filebench >
 [4] <URL: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:822493/FULLTEXT01.pdf >
 [5] <URL: http://www.ilsistemista.net/index.php/virtualization/47-zfs-btrfs-xfs-ext4-and-lvm-with-kvm-a-storage-performance-comparison.html >

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen