How To Measure Linux Filesystem I/O Performance With iozone

Posted by nixcraft on Jul 4, 2008 9:27 AM EDT
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This article gives you a jumpstart on performing benchmark on filesystem using iozone a free Filesystem Benchmark utility.

Following are few situations where you may be interested in performing a filesystem benchmarking.



=> Deploying a new application that is very read and write intensive.
=> Purchased a new storage system and would like to measure the performance.
=> Changing the RAID level and would like to measure the performance of the new RAID.
=> Changing the storage parameters and would like to know the performance impact of this change


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