On 05/02/2012 02:12 PM, Georg Schönberger wrote: > Same error after a clean compilation. > $ fio --version > fio-2.0.7-13-g3b7f > $ fio --create_only --name=test-read-4k-4G-1-jobs --directory=./tests > --rw=read --size=10M --bs=4k --numjobs=4 > max value out of range: 4 (1 max) > max value out of range: 4 (1 max) Please don't top post, reply beneath what you are replying to. Parser looks confused, because you forgot to add the value for the create_only option. If you use --create_only=1 instead, it should work. I wonder why that isn't caught in the command line variant, if you put it in a job file it does catch it: axboe@nelson:/home/axboe/git/fio $ ./fio seq-null Option create_only requires an argument fio: failed parsing create_only fio: job global dropped I'll take a look at that separately. -- Jens Axboe -- 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