Hi, On Wed, 7 Nov 2018 at 11:31, Mohanraj B <bmohanraj91@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > https://fio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fio_man.html#i-o-type > > what is offset modifier, some please explain. > It is possible to specify the number of I/Os to do before getting a > new offset by appending :<nr> to the end of the string given. I guess you mean mean the rw <nr> parameter in the final paragraph in https://fio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/fio_man.html#cmdoption-arg-readwrite . Can you say what part of that paragraph and the rw_sequencer section you are struggling to understand and did you work through the randread:8 and rw=write:4k examples? -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/