NFS Traces

Network File System Traces are typically those for NFS and CIFS and which reflect the protocol used by such network file systems.

[There are no traces less than 10 years old for this tracetype.]

WARNING: These traces are over 10 years old! They should not be used for modern research!

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Trace Name Details Details Actions
Second Animation Dataset Traces collected for the paper "Capture, conversion, and analysis of an intense NFS workload" by Eric Anderson, FAST 2009. NFS traces of an animation company. All of the traces have been stored in DataSeries (ds) format; a tool to read the traces can be found on this Github page. 2007 10 months 144 Billion 3.4 TB
Animation Dataset Each set of data is a single contiguous trace from a single network location. Each set has been broken into downloadable ~4 GB chunks by iotta. Download the index.html file for more information. NFS traces from an animation company, taken at a number of different points. All of the traces have been stored in DataSeries (ds) format; a tool to read the traces can be found on this Github page. 2003 - 2004 6 months 55 Billion 506 GB
Harvard SOS Traces Software to process the NFSdump format is available here. Traces from Harvard campus and departmental servers 2001 - 2003 over 1 year 158 GB
Berkeley Auspex Traces These traces follow the NFS activity of 236 clients serviced by an Auspex file server over the period of 1 week during late 1993. They were gathered by snooping Ethernet packets on four subnets. The clients are the desktop workstations of the University of California at Berkeley Computer Science Division. NFS activity of 236 clients serviced by an Auspex file server. 1993 7 days 27.8 Million 545 MB
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