Take the 2-minute tour ×  I 've a question related to design of
file systems. These days we are seeing the proliferation of many
file systems mostly related to handling large datasets and
providing high availability and speed.  I would like to know
that from a file system designer and developer standpoint, how
do we evaluate the performance and availability of our file-
system? Are there any benchmarks that we can run? How do we test
the code that is written to create a file system design?  If I
want to just write a distributed file system for academic
purposes, would it be mandatory for me to have multiple disks or
can I fake that effect somehow?    share|improve this question I
disagree with moving this to serverfault - it's not about which
filesystems are best to use, but how to implement them –  warren
Nov 16 '09 at 1:24 add comment  3 Answers  up vote 3 down vote
accepted  There are many benchmarks on file systems that are
available. For example: Ext3 vs ReiserFS  My advice to you: Take
a look at the Linu