[CentOS] server disk subsystem benchmarks, bonnie++ and/or others?

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 23:13, Feizhou wrote:
> 
>> Here is an example of a good benchmark for those doing mail storage with 
>> the Maildir format:
>>
>> http://untroubled.org/benchmarking/2004-04/
>>
>> Complete with the tools needed for you to perform your own tests.
> 
> The NetApp people used to have one called 'postmark' that was
> good for measuring the speed of creating and deleting
> small files.  I've lost track of it, but I think the last
> time I mentioned it someone said it was packaged for Debian
> and available in their repositories.

IIRC, postmark also suffered from the lack of use of fsync...yes, it 
does suffer from that:

http://www.shub-internet.org/brad/FreeBSD/postmark.html