Hello fio group, I'm an intern at Seagate. I'm trying to replay an fio log taken on /dev/sdb on a different device, /dev/sdc. However, replay_redirect doesn't seem to make a difference when using a file created with write_iolog. Here is the output of cat testfio.log: fio version 2 iolog /dev/sdb add /dev/sdb open /dev/sdb read 2861015040 524288 /dev/sdb read 2861015040 524288 /dev/sdb read 2861015040 524288 /dev/sdb read 2861015040 524288 /dev/sdb close Here is the command I used to try and play it on /dev/sdc: fio --name=replaytest --filename=/dev/sdc --replay_redirect=/dev/sdc --read_iolog=testfio.log --write_iolog=runt2_fio.log This did not work, and just ran the replay on /dev/sdb. I tried two systems (the newer one runs a modified 3.10 kernel and CentOS 6.8) and fio versions 2.0.5, 2.2.4, 2.2.13, 2.13, and 2.14, without success. It still does not redirect if you give fio a jobfile such as jobfile.fio, where the output of cat jobfile.fio: [global] name=replay filename=/dev/sdc replay_redirect=/dev/sdc direct=1 thread=1 read_iolog=testfio.log [/dev/sdc] I can get replay_redirect to work, but only when using a binary file generated by blktrace. I started a blktrace: blktrace -d /dev/sdb -a read and ran the testfio.log on /dev/sdb a few times, then ran blkparse -i sdb -o /dev/null -d sdb.blktrace.bin Using that as the input for read_iolog as so: fio --name=replaytest --filename=/dev/sdc --replay_redirect=/dev/sdc --read_iolog=sdb.blktrace.bin will successfully redirect to sdc. Also, the --write_iolog flag will not generate a file when running a replay. This makes sense, since you'd just end up with a copy of the original iolog file if it's fio, but I was trying to make sure that the binary blktrace file was the same as the fio iolog and could not verify. This second problem probably isn't important but I'm mentioning it for the sake of completeness. Thank you in advance for any insight / help you can provide. Regards, Jeremy Richards Intern | Seagate Technology 720-684-1858 (Desk Phone) -- 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
