The preceding results were generated with Bonnie++ 1.03e, the most recent version from the stable release series at this point. If you have a terabyte or larger drive, you'll need 1.03e at a minimum to get useful results; the earlier 1.0 releases don't handle that right. And currently, development is nearly complete on an updated Bonnie++ 2.0. There are already plenty of systems where the V1 Bonnie++ results aren't very useful. Ideally, you'd default to trying the snapshots of the experimental V2 releases (currently at 1.96 and 1.97.3) and only fall back to the 1.0 series if that doesn't work for you, but, as described in the next section, that may not always be practical. I normally end up needing to use both.
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