Hi Jens, I tried replaying like 91 blkparse binary files using fio 2.1.6.1 on RHEL 7. I get the below error , any idea what is the reason? Starting 91 processes fio: pid=9134, err=22/file:engines/sync.c:67, func=xfer, error=Invalid argument fio: pid=9092, err=22/file:engines/sync.c:67, func=xfer, error=Invalid argument fio: pid=9053, err=22/file:engines/sync.c:67, func=xfer, error=Invalid argument fio: pid=9127, err=22/file:engines/sync.c:67, func=xfer, error=Invalid argument fio: pid=9079, err=22/file:engines/sync.c:67, func=xfer, error=Invalid argument fio: first direct IO errored. File system may not support direct IO, or iomem_align= is bad. fio: pid=9044, err=22/file:engines/sync.c:67, func=xfer, error=Invalid argument xfer, error=Invalid argument Please help, Thanks Lakshmi -- 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