MD BMG/roadmap

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  • Collect benchmark tools candidates from OpenSFS
  • Evaluate all the tools and the workloads that can benchmarked
  • Recommend a small set of MD benchmark tools to cover the majority of MD workloads
  • Collect stats from users of MD benchmarks
  • Build scripts to allow ease of use of the recommended tools
  • Write documentation for troubleshooting MD performance problems using the toolset
  • Create a special website for MD tools


We ran 3 of the benchmarks proposed with similar configurations so we can compare the benchmarks. We ran the tests on 2 Lustre FS :

  • First FS on 60 disk drives configured in 6 OST's with RAID-6 (8+2) and the MDT on a RAID-5 (4+1) flash devices
  • Second on 20 SSD drives configured in 2 OST's with RAID-6 (8+2) and the MDT on a RAID-5 (4+1) flash devices

The results and some comments are in the pdf file format as follows:

  1. mdtest summary
  2. Postmark summary
  3. Netmist MPI summary
  4. Slides for LUG14


Please note that I used iostat for monitoring the utilization of the devices and that the metadata set was 3x larger than the cache size of the MDS.
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