Hello- I need to do random writes/reads to some thin-provisioned block devices. Writes are no problem, but I have to make sure the reads come from blocks that have already been written (or else the device synthesizes fill data). Pre-filling the device is not desirable since they are 8-12 TiB, plus that isn't the way they are really used. IO at the block level is our customer's requirement, but I'd also be interested in the same concept at the file level, where fio randomly reads from files that it has randomly written. I'm sure I'm not the first person who has come up against this, but I've searched/Googled the best I can and have come up empty. Can somebody point me to the correct switches to force reads to be randomly selected from the blocks that have been written by that test sequence? Thanks in advance. Best regards, -Tim -- Tim Walker Product Design Systems Engineering, Seagate Technology -- 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
