LZpack: A Cluster File System Benchmark

Author

Li, Xin ; Li, Zhanhuai ; Zhang, Xiao ; Wang, Lexiao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Northwestern Polytech. Univ., Xi´´an, China

fYear

2010

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

444

Lastpage

447

Abstract

LZpack is a general file system benchmark tool conforming to POSIX.1. It provides an effective method to evaluate different file systems. It also offers reliable data to the developers who use POSIX.1 file system API to design applications. With the cluster testing structure, LZpack can make precise evaluations of file IO performance and file system metadata operation performance. This paper not only made clear descriptions of the system structure and key features of LZpack, but also analyzed the results from tests in some file systems under the application of LZpack. Finally, it put forward the train of thought on improvement of LZpack in later stage.

Keywords

application program interfaces; client-server systems; file organisation; meta data; software performance evaluation; LZpack; POSIX.1 file system API; cluster file system benchmark; cluster testing structure; file system metadata operation performance; general file system benchmark tool; Benchmark testing; Computer science; File systems; Indexes; Servers; Sun; Cluster File System; Cluster Testing; File IO Test; Metadata Operation Test; Performance Test;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery (CyberC), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Huangshan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8434-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4235-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CyberC.2010.88

Filename

5617011