On 04/03/2015 12:13 PM, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: fio-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fio-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On >> Behalf Of Jens Axboe >> Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2014 1:32 PM >> To: Elliott, Robert (Server Storage); fio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler; Jon Tango >> Subject: Re: linux /dev and normal files >> >> On 10/02/2014 12:21 PM, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote: >>>>>> It might be better to continue to attempt to run the >>>>>> other jobs. >>>>> >>>>> We should just go for the simpler create/nocreate solution, I prefer >>>>> that. This is too involved, and it's hard to get all the cases right >>>>> since there are a bunch of different ways that files are added. Which >>>>> was why this patch only focused on filename=, since that is the one >> that >>>>> is the most interesting. But it still isn't pretty. If we add the >>>>> allow_file_create option, it's basically a two-liner change in a few >>>>> places to not use O_CREAT. >>>> >>>> That took roughly 4 minutes... Does this work? Set allow_file_create=0 >>>> to disallow creating new files. > ... >> >> OK, let me test that, will spin a new one. > > I don't think this ever got added. It didn't... Did you re-test? No reason we can't get it added, I'll look into it start next week. -- 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
