On Tue, Sep 03 2013, Erwan Velu wrote: > Hey, > > I'm on the IRC channel trying to help someone that needs to do the following > : > > doing IOs for x seconds > sleeping for y seconds > and looping this z times > > While trying to setup this, I faced that loops and timebased seems exclusive > options. > Am I wrong on this point ? > > If not, would it be possible not to let them exclusive or add a new option > to handle this case? It should work, if it doesn't, I agree it's a bug. It's not certain than anyone has considered this specific use case before. Feel free to fix! Or I can take a look at it tomorrow. -- 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