I patched iozone for better disk benchmarks on modern macOS (opens in new tab)

A decade ago, I settled on iozone for disk benchmarking on all my systems. Tools like fio ('Flexible IO' tester) are a little more capable for raw disk performance testing, and other tools test network-scale filesystems better, but iozone gives me an easy overview of real-world disk performance across hard drives and SSDs, and runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux (and a smattering of other OSes). It's been around since 1991, and is still updated today—in fact, the two latest updates (version 509 a...