On 05/02/2014 09:47 AM, Ajoy Aswadhati wrote: > I am referring to only one 1GB file and want the data distributed randomly > across the 1TB target disk. > 1 TB disk can be raw without a file system. What is the algorithm for > distributing this 1GB over the 1TB space? Fio has no control over where the filesystem chooses to allocate the physical blocks, so that's not a solvable problem from userspace. -- 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