Thanks all for your replies. Maybe if you like it would be a good feature in fio to support this type of needs :) I have one more question about xfs_io, I don't know if it's a right place but if it not I'm sorry. I have run xfs_io and gets this result: 100.000000 bytes, 1 ops; 0.0000 sec (1.514 MiB/sec and 15873.0159 ops/sec) What is the 15873.0159 ops/sec? Did xfs_io really do 15873.0159 iops or 1iops? On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 11:39 AM Yigal Korman <ykorman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 6:16 AM Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 2020/04/24 12:11, Damien Le Moal wrote: > > > On 2020/04/23 23:41, Seena Fallah wrote: > > >> Hi all. > > >> > > >> I'm trying to probe my file system with fio. I don't want to benchmark > > >> my file system. The only thing I want do is to for example write 100K > > >> file on a file system and then check how much IO does it take to write > > >> and the bandwidth and the runtime. > > >> The main thing I want is to just write that file size and don't bench on that. > > >> Can anyone help me which ioengine or which args should I use to do this probe? > > >> > > >> Thanks. > > >> > > > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/your/file/to/write bs=100K count=i conv=fsync > > > > > > > Oops... Should be: > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/your/file/to/write bs=100K count=1 conv=fsync > > > > obviously for 100K :) > > > > You will get the write bandwidth with this. For knowing how many IOs this take, > > you will need to trace the kernel IO stack (blktrace). No way to know this > > exactly from user space, that is, if by "IO" you mean "storage device commands". > > If by "IO" you mean "system calls", then with the above command, it will be > > exactly 1 "write()" call (use strace to see it). > > > > -- > > Damien Le Moal > > Western Digital Research > > Yeah, fio might not be the best tool for this purpose. > As Damien said - 'dd' is a good alternative. > You could also use the xfs_io tool. > It's not really xfs related, it's a general i/o and filesystem operations tool. > It's part of the xfsprogs package and most likely already installed on > your host. > Here's an example: > > xfs_io -c "pwrite 0 100" -f /path/to/file > > Writes 100 bytes at offset 0 to the file. > It will give you some timing info and bandwidth stats. > > Yigal
