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The tune2fs program can add a journal to an existing ext2 file system without altering the data already on the partition. Read the rest of this entry »

Bonnie++ is a short test, running about 30 minutes on a single client. The information it yields can be used to compare differences between different mount options, but its real value is in deriving CPU usage during the various tests it performs. A test that returns a high CPU utilization indicates that your bottleneck is the CPU itself and that a faster processor will improve performance. A low CPU utilization indicates that the problem is elsewhere. Read the rest of this entry »