Bonnie++ 1.03 Results Write (Sequential) 16910.5 KB/sec Read (Sequential) 39304 KB/sec Creation of small files per second (Sequential) 4378.8 KB/sec Creation of small files per second (Random) 4442.3 KB/sec Deletion of small files per second (Sequential) The data for this was not present in output. It may require a command line option when running bonnie. Deletion of small files per second (Random) 12900.3 KB/sec Command line used: bonnie++ -s 8192:64K -x 10 -d /REISERFS/ -fu root -s 8192:64K writes 8 files, 1GB each in 64KB chunk sizes -x 10 will do the tests 10 times -d /REISERFS/ ran the tests on the reiserfs partition mounted at /REISERFS -f is fast mode, it skips per-char IO tests -u root sets user id to root Tests were done without any prior optimization (hdparms). It was a genaric FC3 install. 256KB array stripe size on RAID 5 using 3ware 9500S-4LP Controller Card