On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 10:49:36PM -0500, Milosz Tanski wrote: > > I have the first version of the FIO cifs support via samba in my fork > of FIO here: https://github.com/mtanski/fio/tree/samba > > Right now it only supports sync mode of FIO (eg. can't submit multiple > outstanding requests) but I'm looking into how to make it work with > smb2 read/write calls with the async flag. > > Additionally, I'm sure I'm doing some things not quite right in terms > of smbcli usage as it was a decent amount of trial and error to get it > to connect (esp. the setup before smbcli_full_connection). Finally, it > looks like the more complex api I'm using (as opposed to smbclient, > because I want the async calls) doesn't quite fully export all calls I > need via headers / public dyn libs so it's a bit of a hack to get it > to build: https://github.com/mtanski/fio/commit/7fd35359259b409ed023b924cb2758e9efb9950c#diff-1 > > But it works for my randread tests with zipf and the great part is > that it should provide a flexible way to test samba with many fake > clients and access patterns. So... progress. One problem here. Looks like fio is under GPLv2-only, is that correct ? If so there's no way to combine the two codebases, as Samba is under GPLv3-or-later with parts under LGPLv3-or-later. fio needs to be GPLv2-or-later in order to be able to use with libsmbclient. Cheers, Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>