Historical Section

The Historical Section includes all traces that are older than 10 years.

Categories

The I/O Trace Data files have been segregated into several broad categories. These categories are typically, although not exclusively, defined by the measurement point at which the respective I/O trace was taken.

The categories (or types) of I/O traces include:

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• Application Traces [This category is currently empty]
  Application Traces record calls made by a specific application.
• Block I/O Traces
  Block I/O Traces typically include block level (e.g., at the logical volume manager, disk driver, etc. level) and block protocol (e.g., SCSI, ATA, Fibre Channel) traces.
• HPC Summaries
  Traces from HPC installations, generally expressed as statistical summaries rather than blow-by-blow event traces
• Key-Value Traces [This category is currently empty]
  Key-Value traces reflect activity directed to key-value stores.

  Related traces can also be found in the Parallel Traces section.

• NFS Traces
  Network File System Traces are typically those for NFS and CIFS and which reflect the protocol used by such network file systems.
• Parallel Traces
  Parallel traces, generally taken from supercomputers or in large datacenters, record activity from multiple computers running in parallel.

  Similar traces can also be found in the Key-Value Traces section.

• SSSI WIOCP Metrics [This category is currently empty]
  SSSI WIOCP, the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) Workload I/O Capture Program (WIOCP), collected already-summarized empirical metrics separately for both monitored devices and processes/applications. More information about the SSSI WIOCP can be found in the SSSI WIOCP FAQ and the 'Introduction to the SSSI WIOCP I/O Metrics' whitepaper.
• Static Snapshots
  Static Snapshots are traces taken statically of a file system rather than of system calls.
• System Call Traces
  System-Call I/O Traces typically reflect operating system calls to the file system.

  Some system-call traces can also be found in the Parallel Traces section.