Impact of Workloads

• Office and Engineering Workload

  • small files
  • metadata access dominant
  • lots of random I/O

• Large files and large accesses not targeted

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File create/delete time depends on how fast metadata is updated

Large files:

performance depends on bandwidth (transfer time)

FS methods to efficiently read them exists - extent based file systems

Hardware based transfer improvement - disk arrays