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Exploring High Bandwidth Filesystems on Large Systems

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Overview This paper presents the results of an investigation conducted by SGI into streaming filesystem throughput on the Altix platform with a high bandwidth disk subsystem. The paper starts by describing some of the background that led to this project and the goals for the project. Next, the paper describes the benchmark methodology and hardware used in the project. This is followed up with a set of baseline results and observations using XFS on a patched 2.6.5 kernel from a major distribution.

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Publisher	SGI	File Format	PDF
Date Published	April 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Bandwidth Issues, Streaming Media

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