Bug#415238: RFP: xdd -- Enhenced dd for measuring and characterizing disk subsystem I/O

[Philippe Coval <rzr@users.sf.net>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : xdd
  Version         : 6.5
  Upstream Author : Thomas M. Ruwart <tmruwart(a)ioperformance.com>
* URL             : http://www.ioperformance.com
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Enhenced dd for measuring and characterizing disk subsystem I/O

Xdd is a tool for measuring and characterizing disk subsystem I/O on single
systems and clusters of systems. It is a command-line based tool that grew
out of the UNIX world and has been ported to run in Window's environments
as well. It is designed to provide consistent and reproducible performance
measurements of disk I/O traffic.  There are three basic components to xdd
that include the xdd program itself, a timeserver program, and a gettime
program. The timeserver and gettime programs are used to synchronize the
clocks of xdd programs simultaneously running across multiple computer
systems.

I built a "quick and dirty" package,
if you want to take it as a basis fell free to do it so.

It's in my private repository :
http://rzr.online.fr/contrib.htm

Good luck