Hi Jens, I'm trying to write an fio control file which will have several threads, each writing to disjoint portions of a device. The size of the portion of the device that the thread controls is determined by an environment variable, for example "export SIZE=1g". The control file looks something like this: [global] size=${SIZE} filename=/dev/my-device [job1] offset=0 [job2] offset=${SIZE} [job3] offset=2*${SIZE} Unfortunately, this doesn't work with the current version of fio. It appears that arithmetic expressions are only evaluated when a keyword ($pagesize, $mb_memory or $ncpus) is included. Further, the expressions are evaluated by bc, which wouldn't understand "1g", so it wouldn't work to just add a call to bc_calc in str_to_decimal. What's the recommended way to do this? Alternatively, what do you think would be the minimal thing to add to fio to achieve this effect? One option is to add a new set of fio options to set up this particular scenario--offsets that increment by an offset. Alternatively, a mechanism to make new keywords globally would work, if I could just make the size a keyword (or maybe all options could implicitly be keywords?). What do you think? Thanks, Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html