July 2008
How To Measure Linux Filesystem I/O Performance With iozone
User contributed tutorial written by Ramesh Natarajan.
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
March 2008
Using ATA Over Ethernet On Debian Etch | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
by 2 others (via)Imagine you have a machine with all of its disk full and another with unused gigabytes, and you don't want to move the data from one to the other. Why not using the second's disk on the first, you can do it with iSCSI but you can do it with ATA over Ethernet (AoE) too. It's the second method I'll explain in this article. All of this was made with two computers running Debian Etch.
January 2007
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