Thanks for all the suggestions. Yes I did observe files being created. I will play more with it taking your inputs. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2013-01-11 20:24, Hong Jiang wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I am pretty new to this tool, and currently evaluating it on both >> linux and windows platforms. Would appreciate if someone shows me an >> example of job file that can test this scenario: >> >> I have a share that's created out of the "cloud", on windows client >> side it's mounted as a new drive, on linux it's mounted to a >> directory. I would like to run some file op tests against the share. >> >> I tried to use the example job file that came with the package - >> 1mbs_clients, modifying the "directory" parameter setting in the file, >> but I am not sure it's really running against the share, as the result >> looks exact the same when I ran the test on 2 different shares. >> >> Thanks in advance for your help! > > Delete the output files and run the test again? If the files are > created, then you should be able to safely confirm that it is running > where you think it is running. Fio will prefix any file with the > --directory= setting. So if you did set it, it should work... > > -- > 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
