Maybe I'm confused - but I don't think so in this case. I'm familiar with benchmarking both file system and disk (raw device) performance in Linux and Windoze. bonnie measures file system performance of a server - Splunk indexer (or other components) don't "HAVE" to be loaded on the node to test file system performance. I assume Splunk wanted consistent reporting so they could've chosen any other file system benchmark - iozone, vdbench, iometer... They settled on bonnie++ which is fine. I wanted to be sure that there was something Splunk specific in running bonnie++ without Splunk being loaded on a node that would be used as an indexer.
Thx.
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