On 10/06/2017 01:43 PM, Josef Bacik wrote: > This is for doing empty file creation jobs much like what we do with > fs_mark. You still need to specify a filesize so that fio will pretend > to do something, but the IO won't actually be done on the file. Looks fine to me, though the HOWTO/man page bit could use some explanation of how latencies are tracked as reads. Should also have an example job file to go with it. Just looking at the documentation now, it's pretty much impossible to figure out how to use this, without looking at the source code. -- Jens Axboe -- 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