On 27 June 2016 at 21:41, Srinath Krishna Ananthakrishnan <ska@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [small_write] > rw=rw > blocksize=4k > size=100M > verify=crc32c-intel > buffer_compress_percentage=50 > buffer_pattern="abcd" > > With this, I don't see fio generating compressible data with the > pattern and still reverts to generating random data. Anything I'm > missing? You're forcing the pattern of data that must be used via buffer_pattern so you aren't you taking away the ability for fio to vary the data? Do you get a different result if you don't specify buffer_pattern ? -- 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