On 1 October 2014 04:43, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2014-09-30 19:17, Jens Axboe wrote: >> >> On 2014-09-30 19:12, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote: >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Jens Axboe [mailto:axboe@xxxxxxxxx] >>>> >>>> I'd much rather keep fio ignorant of any "special" directories, even if >>>> it means that sometimes you do potentially run into issues like the >>>> above, where you specify a block device that does not exist. >>> >>> How about an option in the script: >>> direct=2 file must exist and be a block device, otherwise skip it >> >> Might be a bit nasty to overload direct= like that. But I'd be open to >> adding an option that says must_be_bdev or something, which can be a >> bool as well. > > So for your case, you'd set > > filetype=bdev How about a create parameter which defaults to create=1 giving the current behaviour and create=0 where the job fails if the file doesn't already exist? It won't catch as much but should be portable. -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- 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
