Hi, Thanks for the response. I have gone through and worked out the example. Below are my queries: what is offset? How to verify the results if used the :<nr> at the end of the string ? Thanks and Regards, Mohan On 11/7/18, Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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/ >