Am 2012-05-02 14:15, schrieb Jens Axboe: > 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. > That works now: $ fio --create_only=1 --name=test --directory=./tests --rw=read --size=10M --bs=4k --numjobs=4 test: (g=0): rw=read, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=1 ... test: (g=0): rw=read, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=sync, iodepth=1 fio-2.0.7-13-g3b7f Starting 4 processes test: Laying out IO file(s) (1 file(s) / 10MB) test: Laying out IO file(s) (1 file(s) / 10MB) test: Laying out IO file(s) (1 file(s) / 10MB) test: Laying out IO file(s) (1 file(s) / 10MB) Run status group 0 (all jobs): $ ls tests/ test.1.0 test.2.0 test.3.0 test.4.0 Nice! Thanks, Georg P.S.: Sorry for top posting -- 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
