On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Georg Schönberger <gschoenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 Hi Jens, Does this mean that if we create the files with appropriate names and size before starting fio, then fio will not lay them out explicitly? Just confirming .. this will be very useful (reduce runtime) when performing tests on large filesystems. Thanks, Vikram. -- 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
