The Advancement of NFS Benchmarking: SFS 2.0
DAVID H. ROBINSON · 1999
With the release of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation’s (SPEC) System File Server (SFS) Release 1.0 benchmark suite in April 1993, the characterization of NFS server performance grew from a small and not widely accepted set of benchmarks, to a single industry standard benchmark. This paper will provide a historical look at the success of SFS 1.01 and how it has driven server capabilities, describe SFS 1.0’s shortcomings, and detail the design and rationale behind the development of SFS 2.0. Terminology The SFS benchmark suite has been referred to by a number of different names that has lead to confusion. For this paper, the term SFS shall refer to the suite and in particular the framework used to drive the workloads, SFS 1.0 or SFS 2.0. Each suite is composed of one or more workloads which reflect the version of protocol used. SFS 1.0 contains the 097.LAD-DIS workload and SFS 2.0 contains the 162.nfsv2 and 163.nfsv3 workload. For this paper, the 097.LADDIS workload will be referred to as LADDIS, and 162.nfsv2 and 163.nfsv3 as V2 and V3 respectively. SFS 1.0