A few years back I wrote a script to scan a broken filesystem for video files by combing through the raw disk device. The RAID was 13 TB, and the individual files saved went from a couple GB to 50 or 60 GB.

Else I wrote a few disk benchmark scripts that work fine indeed... Perl moves data around more than fast enough to saturate the speediest storage.

• OS Linux
• File size: from 8 to 250 GB
• Filesystem: XFS, JFS, PVFS2
• filesystem size: 8 to 250 TB
• content: video, various binary
• binary data

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