Hi, Why the parameter buffer_pattern is absent in git HowTo? KR -----Original Message----- From: fio-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fio-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jens Axboe Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 6:24 PM To: Surendar Chandra; fio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: buffer_pattern usage question On 2014-08-21 20:01, Surendar Chandra wrote: > Could you please help me with this setup > > filename=fio-data > size=4k > rw=write > buffer_pattern="HELLO" > > The output still continues to be pseudo random. I even tried buffer_pattern=0xDEADBEEF and other params. It's not going to take a string, it needs to be a decimal of hexidecimal number. I added some code to error out if it fails parsing this now. buffer_pattern=0xDEADBEEF should work, and does for me: axboe@lenny:/home/axboe/git/fio $ hexdump fio-data 0000000 beef dead beef dead beef dead beef dead * 0001000 -- 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 -- 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
