By: David Chisholm (dmchisho@learn.senecac.on.ca)

In order to have our Koji Build Farm run as efficiently as possible we needed to find out which form of data storage would be the fastest overall. The candidates were:

The fastest overall

Benchmark using a linux untiliy called Bonnie++ written by Russell Coker.

bonnie++ -d <location> -s 2048 -u root

What happened while you worked on the problem? You had multiple iterations -- what happened at each milestone? Did you go down the wrong path and have to start over? What barriers did you encounter?

What did you discover and learn during the process -- about the technology, the open source process, the community, yourself and your abilities, collaboration?

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