On Fri, Jan 11 2013, Gavin Martin wrote: > I'm using Fio to run to raw devices in both Linux & Windows, one thing > that I am unable to do is to specify an LBA range to run to. > > I know that there are the 'zonesize' and 'zoneskip' arguments, but I'm > struggling to see how they work. In essence I would like to have a > number of jobs running to different parts of the disk. > > In a basic example: from LBA 0 to 1/2 of MaxLBA I would like to run a > sequential workload and from 1/2 MaxLBA+1 to MaxLBA I would like to > run a random workload. > > Can this be done with existing arguments? If maxlba is 10G, then you would do: [global] size=5G [seq] offset=0 rw=write [rand] offset=5G rw=randwrite Fill in other parameters as needed -- 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
