Re: Filenames on 'server' jobs to shared filesystems

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On 2012-07-17 17:19, Matthew Richardson wrote:
> I'm currently using fio to simulate user reads and writes to a NAS
> service, and am testing the performance of different shared filesystems
> (NFS, Samba, Glusterfs etc).
> 
> In order to properly load the box I'm using a pool of clients to connect
> to the fs (fio --server) and then launching the same job on multiple
> clients. (fio --client=a --client=b job.fio)
> 
> The resulting jobs on the different servers all seem to use the same
> file - the filename seems to be <name>.<thread>.<fileno> - in this case
> 'job.1.0':
> 
> [global]
> directory=/mnt/gluster
> rw=randrw
> size=10M
> ioengine=libaio
> 
> [job]
> 
> 
> Is there any way to have the server include some personal identifier
> (such as hostname) in the filename so that there isn't this conflict?

That's not a bad idea, to have the backend prefix with it's hostname or
similar. Let me know if you want to test (or create!) such a patch, I'd
be happy to help.

Sorry about the late response - that goes to all the emails on this
list. I've been away on business and then vacation, so it's been a while
and I'm trying to catch up.

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Jens Axboe

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