Are the metrics for SPECsfs2008 different than the metric for SFS 3.0?
Yes. SPECsfs2008 maintains similar metrics that were used in SFS 3.0, but it also now provides metrics for CIFS. It provides overall response time and peak throughput. The larger the peak throughput the better. The lower the overall response time the better. The overall response time is an indicator of how quickly the system under test responds to NFS, or CIFS, operations over the entire range of the tested load. In real-world situations, servers are not run continuously at peak throughput, so peak response time provides only minimal information. The overall response time is a measure of how the system will respond under an average load. Mathematically, the value is derived by calculating the area under the curve divided by the peak throughput.
