On Wed, Apr 10 2013, Alan Hagge wrote: > On 04/08/2013 04:17 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 08 2013, Michal Šmucr wrote: > >>2013/4/5 Jens Axboe<axboe@xxxxxxxxx>: > >>>and then 'write' and 'read' job would be sharing those files. Let me > >>>know if it works for you. > >>Thank you for patch Jens. > >>Re-using files working for me and i also like that string format > >>specification. Compiled with last git and tested on Mac OS X and > >>Centos 5. > >>I played with fio and sequence tests, it already helps me to get > >>figures much closer to real world utilization. I always struggled with > >>generic synthetic benchmarks as it usually don't work with sequences. > >>So i can roughly set IO sizes, modes, but for example can't simulate > >>performance differences caused by different file allocation between > >>one huge file (with few extents due to filesystem internal > >>optimization) and thousands of files. > >>Great! > >Thanks for testing and confirming that it both works and that the > >semantics make sense. I tagged 2.0.15 this morning and kept a few > >pending features/fixes in a 'next' branch, all have been pulled into the > >master branch. So the filename_format option is now in current -git, > >though it did not make 2.0.15 final. > I too was able to compile the git version and try a test this morning and it > looks to be working just fine. This will help us immensely. Thanks for the > quick response and flexible solution! Excellent, glad it works for you, Alan. -- 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
