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IOZone is Article description::a utility that provides filesystem performance and benchmarking capabilities.

Kernel
Of course the kernel must have each filesystem driver builtin or module probed before attempting to use to test the throughput on the filesystem. Filesystems in the kernel can be found in the menuconfig ncurses interface under:

Emerge
There are currently no USE flags for ; just it:

Files

 * - Global (system wide) configuration file.
 * - Local (per user) configuration file.

Automated throughput test
Move to the root of the desired partition or device that

iozone does not run as a normal user
iozone will not run as a normal user. This is because the executable is not on the normal PATH. It can be called directly using the full path:

External resources

 * https://www.linux.com/news/iozone-filesystem-performance-benchmarking - Linux.com article explaining