On Thu, Jan 31 2013, Gavin Martin wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure if I am missing a special argument somewhere, but I like the > command line display we get from Fio when it runs showing the type of > workload and job descriptions and percentage complete, etc. Is it > possible to get the outputs that you get when using the --minimal > argument (in JSON, CSV formats) whilst still keeping the command line > display. > > Having this would make it similar to Iometer, not in a graphical > sense, but in a way that you can see exactly what is occurring (and if > it has halted or crashed) whilst still having logs that could be > charted or plotted into reports. Especially useful for extended test > runs (over several hours!) --eta=always should do the trick for you, if I understand your request correctly. I suppose for that to be useful, you want to redirect the csv/json output to a file as well? Might be useful to have the behaviour of: --output-format=type [file] where if 'file' is given, then output goes to that file in the specified format, and fio still uses stdout for the ETA output. -- 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