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+PostMark is the benchmark used in the NetApp Technical Report TR-3022,
+"PostMark: A New File System Benchmark". The paper fully explains how
+to use this tool.
+
+From the paper's Abstract:
+ Existing file system benchmarks are deficient in portraying
+ performance in the ephemeral small-file regime used by Internet
+ software, especially:
+ * electronic mail
+ * netnews
+ * web-based commerce
+
+PostMark is a new benchmark to measure performance for this class of
+application.