fio always writes null bytes whatever I do. I need random data to avoid interference of deduplication solutions (within SSDs or using ZFS). Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 fio-2.2.6 (also tried 2.2.0/2.2.1/2.2.3) fio --section=fiorandom --runtime=60 <FIOFile> <FIOFile>: [global] ioengine=windowsaio thread group_reporting time_based clocksource=clock_gettime direct=1 refill_buffers size=1g [fiorandom] readwrite=randwrite numjobs=4 iodepth=1 blocksize=8k directory=D\:\ -- 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