All, I want to look at options of doing zoned access but using "sequential" workload. Does the below profile achieve that? I want to make sure that using the random_distribution wont cause the i/o to behave as random. rw=write random_distribution= 60/10:30/30:10/60 i.e 60% seq wr = first 10% of drive 30% seq wr = next 30% of drive 10% seq wr = next 60% of drive -- Life is too short for silly things so invest your time in some productive outputs!! -- 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