LFS and FFS Supplementary Information

The following benchmark programs, source code, data files, and commentary supplement the 1995 Usenix paper Logging versus Clustering: A Performance Evaluation.

BSD-LFS Kernel Sources
BSD-LFS Utilities.
Section 2 Big and Small File Benchmarks.
Ideal Benchmark Source. This benchmark is used for both Section 3 and Section 5. The BRANCH_OUT and FILES_PER_DIR should be set to 100 for Section 3 and 25 for Section 5.
TPC/B Benchmark.
FFS Fragmentation data and tools.
File Layout and File System Performance

Critique and Response on LFS Measurements

John Ousterhout's critique
The Authors' Response
John Ousterhout's second critique

Margo Seltzer / margo@eecs.harvard.edu