Hi Jens, The test I'm interested in performing would require (I believe) FIO to read from one device and write to another in a specified ratio. This is different from the rwmix feature in FIO, as I can specify only a single device where the reads and writes will take place. Assuming that I could achieve the same read/write ratio with two FIO instances (one reading from one device and the other writing to a different device) as I get using a single FIO instance and rwmix, is there a reason--in terms of how reads and writes would be performed--that would prevent a valid comparison between the two? Thanks, Carl -- 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