FreeBSD and Related Topics

Topics of Interest Related to FreeBSD:

• Greg Lehey's vinum logical volume manager for FreeBSD. Handles mirroring (RAID-1), striping (RAID-0), mirroring+striping (RAID-1+0), and RAID-5.
  • Results of some of my own performance testing for vinum. Suffice it to say that I'm very impressed!
• Network Appliance's PostMark filesystem-level benchmarking utility.
  • Results of further benchmarking with postmark. Data from several sources will be collected here, not just my own testing.
• Links to further disk benchmarking utilities, for Unix and other OSes.
• The reiserfs list of benchmarks. It may be a filesystem for Linux (a Unix-like OS that is a competitor to FreeBSD), but the authors have collected an excellent list of disk and filesystem benchmarks that they use in their testing.