• dedicated
• FilesystemPerformanceTuning

Server filesystem performance tuning resources

• Add noatime to your mount options. For already-mounted file systems do something like:

  mount /data -o remount,noatime

• If using ext3, make sure directory indexes are enabled (will make fsck slower, though)
• When creating a new ext3 filesystem on a RAID array, let the file system know about the underlying layout

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stride_of_an_array

  • http://www.nabble.com/Calculating-stride-values--t3874762.html

• http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Disk_Optimization

• http://www.nabble.com/RFC:-Tuning-ext3-t3774153.html

• http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_Software_RAID

Benchmarking tools

• Linux

  • http://sourceforge.net/projects/tiobench/

  • http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/fstress/

  • http://www.iozone.org/

  • http://samba.org/ftp/tridge/dbench/README

  • http://code.google.com/p/bonnie-64/ Bonnie-64 (successor of Bonnie)

  • http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ (Fork of original Bonnie)

  • http://www.csamuel.org/articles/emerging-filesystems-200709/ Benchmark article on new filesystems as of 09/2007

• Windows

  • ftp://download.intel.com/design/servers/iometer/iometer.zip

  • winbench

Research papers

• http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~enightin/syncio.ps Rethink the sync research paper

• http://osdi2006.blogspot.com/2006/10/paper-rethink-sync_31.html