filebench

File system and storage benchmark

Filebench is a file system and storage benchmark that can generate a large variety of workloads. Unlike typical benchmarks it is extremely flexible and allows to specify application's I/O behavior using its extensive Workload Model Language (WML). Users can either describe desired workloads from scratch or use (with or without modifications) workload personalities shipped with Filebench (e.g., mail-, web-, file-, and database-server workloads). Filebench is equally good for micro- and macro-benchmarking, quick to setup, and relatively easy to use.