Filebench News

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[edit] What's New

• FileBench is now included in Open Solaris. It is located in a new /usr/benchmarks directory, which will eventually host some other benchmarks as well.

• Two new pages have been added, one describing the .f workload modeling language in detail, and the other describing the inner workings of FileBench.

• Filebench now has a random variable feature: FileBench Random Variables. These are variables whose values change with each use according to a specified random distribution function. Several different distributions are supported, and more may be added in the future.

• FileBench now allows you to write what are effectively inline subroutines: FileBench Composite Flowops. This feature lets you define new mega flowops as a list of built-in flowops. The Composite Flowops can be used within threads just like any other flowop, including being invoked with iteration counts, and have parameters passed in for setting custom attributes.

• FileBench now has Multi-Client capability FileBench Multi-client Support, which allows a set of clients to access files and filesets on one (or more) file servers, using the client's NFS or CIFS drivers.

[edit] Some planned extensions are:

• NFSv3 client plug-in.

• Improved file server workload