IO Traces Available Online

In researching a storage systems, the first step is to analyze the real world workload and verify if your insight makes sense in the real workload. Therefore, storage research community has been collected  the workloads and made them accessible online.

• SNIA Traces
  • Block IO Traces, NFS Traces, Parallel Traces, Static Snapshot, System Call Traces
• UMass Storage Repository
  • OLTP Trace (write dominant), Web Search Trace (read dominant)
  • SPC (Storage Performance Council) format
• The NOW Trace Collection Project
  • Instructional Workload, Research Workload, Web Workload
• S-Clock before-cache trace
  • “before-cache” storage access traces from a real Android smartphone