Filebench [PSARC/2007/448 FastTrack timeout 08/16/2007]

[James Carlson]

Matthew Ahrens writes:
>         This project delivers the following executable perl script:
>         /usr/benchmarks/filebench/filebench

Not mentioned here is that this seems to establish a precedent for a
directory called /usr/benchmarks, with subdirectories for each
benchmark.

It seems to be akin to /usr/demo/ (is that right?), but the semantics
are somewhat unclear, as it seems unlikely that anyone would deliver
more than handful of executables in any directory, and likely that
it's just a single file per directory.

Are there other things that might fit here?  Future plans?

An update to filesystem(5) to describe this new hierarchy would be
helpful.

> User Commands                                             filebench(1)
> 
> NAME
>      filebench - framework of workloads to measure and compare
>      filesystem performance

Nit: since it's on a non-default path, I think this man page should
include the full path.

Would it make sense to have a new subsection (say, 1BENCH) to collect
these man pages together?  Otherwise, I think it seems a little odd to
have things in section 1 that aren't going directly into /usr/bin.

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