Speed testing with bonnie++..... Doesn't everyone do this?
bonnie++ -d /tmp/bonnie-tests/ -s 4G:64k -n 10:1048576:1024:1024 \ -m "Valkyrie - 2 Disc RAID1 - ATA133 7200RPM - LVM - ext4" \ -u nobody -g nobody -x 5 > bonnie-results/valkyre1.csv
People babble on about RAID-x is faster than RAID-y or filesystem x is faster than filesystem y. I don't care for people's anecdotal evidence. Just like your butt-dyno readings for your car mean nothing so do your anecdotes about drive/raid/filesystem performance. Give me numbers or get out!
I like benchmarking the toys I have access too. So, I figured I'd share some of the bonnie tests that I've run on different systems.