SPECsfs2008
Run and Reporting Rules
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Table of Contents
2 Results Disclosure and Usage
2.1 Fair Use of
SPECsfs2008 Results
2.2 Research and Academic
usage of SPECsfs2008
2.4 Full disclosure of
benchmark configuration and results
2.5 Disclosure of
Results for Electronically Equivalent Systems
2.5.1 Definition of Electronic Equivalence
3 Benchmark Software Requirements
3.1 Server and Client
Software
3.2 Benchmark Source Code
Changes
4 Server Configuration, Load Generator
Configuration, and Protocol Requirements
4.2 CIFS protocol
requirements
4.3 Server configuration
requirements
4.4 Load Generator
configuration requirements
4.5 Description of Stable
Storage for SPECsfs2008
4.5.1 NFS protocol definition of stable storage
and its use
4.5.2 CIFS protocol definition of stable storage
and its use
4.5.3 Definition of terms pertinent to stable
storage
4.5.4 Stable storage further defined
4.5.5 Specifying fault-tolerance features of the
SUT
4.5.6 SPECsfs2008 submission form fields related
to stable storage
4.6 Description of
Uniform Access for SPECsfs2008
4.6.1 Uniform access
algorithm