Bug#655222: ITP: filebench -- ITP: filebench - file system and storage benchmark with flexible workload specification

[Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>

* Package name    : filebench
  Version         : 1.4.9.1
  Upstream Author : Vasily Tarasov (vass@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu) and others
* URL             : http://sourceforge.net/projects/filebench/
* License         : CDDL 1.0
  Programming Lang: C, Perl
  Description     : ITP: filebench - file system and storage benchmark with flexible workload specification

Filebench is a file system and storage benchmark that allows to generate a
high variety of workloads. It employs extensive Workload Model Language
(WML) for detailed workload specification.

Features:

- Extensive Workload Model Language (WML) for workload specification
- Includes popular pre-defined workloads: webserver, fileserver, varmail, etc.
- Reports throughput and latency histograms
- Works on Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris

(taken from upstream webpage)

I intend to maintain it as project of collabmaint on Alioth via Git. I
intend to have Sebastian 'tokkee' Harl <sh@teamix.de> as my sponsor for
uploading the package.