On Thu, Jan 31 2013, Jens Axboe wrote: > 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. So we already have --output, so we don't need the extra argument to the format option. What is missing is just the below - that will continue to use the ETA running output to stdout, if a file was chosen for the output of the results. IOW, if you do: $ fio --output-format=json --output=somefile then fio (with the below patch) would output results to 'somefile' while still doing the running stdout output. That should do what you need, correct? diff --git a/eta.c b/eta.c index 39fe10f..cfb8679 100644 --- a/eta.c +++ b/eta.c @@ -285,7 +285,8 @@ int calc_thread_status(struct jobs_eta *je, int force) static struct timeval rate_prev_time, disp_prev_time; if (!force) { - if (output_format != FIO_OUTPUT_NORMAL) + if (output_format != FIO_OUTPUT_NORMAL && + f_out == stdout) return 0; if (temp_stall_ts || eta_print == FIO_ETA_NEVER) return 0; -- 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