Hi, Escaping the directory worked : C\:\temp\fio\read Documentation update ? Seb -----Original Message----- From: Jens Axboe [mailto:axboe@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: mercredi 12 mars 2014 17:33 To: Sébastien Bouchex Bellomié; fio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Bug with "multi directory support" on windows On 03/12/2014 09:38 AM, Sébastien Bouchex Bellomié wrote: > Hi, > > A nice bug on Windows : > > My profile is : > > [global] > thread > > [random_read] > rw=randread > size=1024m > directory=c:\temp\fio\read > bs=32k > > fio start looks like : > C:\Program Files\fio>fio.exe H:\fio\fio.win > fio: c is not a directory > fio: failed parsing directory=c:\temp\fio\read > fio: job random_read dropped > fio: file:options.c:875, func=lstat, error=No such file or directory > > Of course ! The : separator of the multi directory support feature > does not filter the Windows drive letter You might need to escape the ':' so it's c\:\Program Files and so forth. I'll have to double check if that is done correctly for directory, fio does do it for filename. -- 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