[Storage-research-list] Are there any block-level trace-driven benchmarks available on the Linux 2.6 platform?

[Geoff Kuenning]

> I am conducting some research on the block-level storage systems and
> want to evaluate the performance of our approach using some
> trace-driven benchmarks. Anybody can provide some information where
> I can get the block-level trace-driven benchmarks available on the
> linux 2.6 platform?

Yes, there are block-level traces available at http://iotta.snia.org.
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    Geoff Kuenning geoff at cs.hmc.edu http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/

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