On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2014-07-28 19:42, Andrey Kuzmin wrote: >> >> When dealing with a growing number of fio test scripts, copy/pasting >> global section becomes error-prone and cumbersome. Is it possible (or >> how much effort would it be to add such a feature) to pull a named set >> of global settings into the .fio file? > > > Not currently possible, but I can see it being a useful feature. I'll add it > to the list. Something ala > > fio --shared globals.fio actual-job.fio > > I added something similar back in April for command line jobs, where you can > now do > > fio --some-setting=1 --other-setting=2 actual-job.fio > > and have that those settings be part of the global namespace. My take would be to focus on the .fio file rather than on the command-line, as job files lend itself very well to the management and version control found in the test suite settings. Adding support for the include filenames... directive in .fio files would make the most sense to me in this respect. Regards, Andrey > > -- > 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
