Hi, Thought I'd share this one with you, it's from Linus: ---- [...] get Jens' FIO code. It does things right, including writing actual pseudo-random contents, which shows if the disk does some "de-duplication" (aka "optimize for benchmarks): http://freecode.com/projects/fio Anything else is suspect - forget about bonnie or other traditional tools. ---- -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html