Brian L. On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Mkrtchyan, Tigran" <tigran.mkrtchyan@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I need to simulate a workload of generating sequence >> of files - some thing like creating photos. >> >> where is my config: >> [global] >> create_on_open=1 >> unlink=1 >> filesize=70m >> size=7000m >> >> [pilatus-sec-write] >> rw=write >> openfiles=1 >> nrfiles=100 >> stonewall >> >> >> I will expect that a combination of create_on_open and openfiles >> will create one file at the time, nevertheless all files get >> created at the same time. > > Try adding file_service_type=sequential to your job file. > > Cheers, > Jeff > -- if you can't find a soln, try a for loop and create sections like these??: [pilatus-sec-write_1] rw=write openfiles=1 nrfiles=1 stonewall [pilatus-sec-write_2] rw=write openfiles=1 nrfiles=1 stonewall [pilatus-sec-write_3] rw=write openfiles=1 nrfiles=1 stonewall -- 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