Fio is very cool tool for generating various io patterns. And I use it as a base io-loader for xfsstress framework I've prepared two file-based ioengines which allow to generate interesting io patterns. 'falloc' is more generic and may be useful for many cases, other 'e4defrag' is more specific but still usfull. It would be nice to have this engines in-tree if possible. TOC: # fixes for external engines export file_lookup_open ioengine: allow several external ioengines # file based ioengines ioengine: Add fallocate ioengine ioengine: Add e4defrag ioengine -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html