[NTLUG:Discuss] Filesystem Performance/Durability Tests

[Chris Cox]

Paul Ingendorf wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a tool available to test partitions for
> durability, speed, and overall reliability?

Are you talking about disk benchmarking utilities???

A filesystem exerciser???

I'm not sure exactly what you mean.

I use bonnie++ for throughput testing on filesystems.
I have no idea what you would use for "reliability"
testing.  And "durability"... I guess that means how
easily is it read/written after being physically dropped...
that one is probably done through experimentation.