Reposting it as gmail android client inserted html and it got rejected from mailing list. ----------------------------- Thanks Jens for the reply. As FIO supports writing to same file in client/server mode then what should be filename/filename_pattern should be. As currently specifying filename it appends hostname/IP to file name and thus each client ends up writing to its own file. ------------------------------- - Gurvinder On 05/03/2016 03:15 AM, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 05/01/2016 01:11 PM, Gurvinder Singh wrote: >> Hi, >> >> First of all thanks for such a nice tool to do IO testing. I am >> wondering if it is possible to test accessing a single file from >> multiple clients to test distributed file system behavior. >> >> The reason for this test is to see if it has different behavior than >> having numjobs > 1 accessing same file running on same host. > > Sure, you can do that. Fio doesn't really care about whether the file is > shared or not. Obviously some things like verification might not work > properly, but just reading and writing to a shared file, fio doesn't > care if it's local or not. > > -- 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
