On 2012-07-20 12:30, Georg Schönberger wrote: > I have now figured out the problem: when testing with a whole > partition "/dev/sdb1" and specifying an offset you have also to > specify a size via "--size". I thought that if I am using an offset > with a partition Fio would carry out the test starting at the offset > until the end of the partition. But this is not the case, you have to > explicitly give the rest of partition's size starting from the offset. > This was my fault, Fio is doing everything correctly. We could improve and have fio get the partition size in this case. The problem is that if it's a block device, it'll get the full size. A bit counter intuitive. -- 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
