X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=951550b83f141a1f0063cb563650f4906644f090;hb=7fcad9e1cf089289372cc91a85fba0c7e5978474;hp=8f5385ef6fe5102db97275cf4c641bcdf852a9b6;hpb=f80dba8d2fc3052ab003c7cf3b19f1255210fae9;p=fio.git diff --git a/README b/README index 8f5385ef..951550b8 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -92,16 +92,17 @@ Binary packages Debian: Starting with Debian "Squeeze", fio packages are part of the official - Debian repository. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=fio. + Debian repository. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=fio . Ubuntu: Starting with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (aka "Lucid Lynx"), fio packages are part of the Ubuntu "universe" repository. - http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=fio. + http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=fio . -Red Hat, CentOS & Co: - Dag Wieërs has RPMs for Red Hat related distros, find them here: - http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/fio/. +Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS & Co: + Starting with Fedora 9/Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 4, fio + packages are part of the Fedora/EPEL repositories. + https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/fio/ . Mandriva: Mandriva has integrated fio into their package repository, so installing @@ -204,10 +205,10 @@ implemented, I'd be happy to take patches for that. An example of that is disk utility statistics and (I think) huge page support, support for that does exist in FreeBSD/Solaris. -Fio uses pthread mutexes for signalling and locking and FreeBSD does not -support process shared pthread mutexes. As a result, only threads are -supported on FreeBSD. This could be fixed with sysv ipc locking or -other locking alternatives. +Fio uses pthread mutexes for signalling and locking and some platforms do not +support process shared pthread mutexes. As a result, on such platforms only +threads are supported. This could be fixed with sysv ipc locking or other +locking alternatives. Other \*BSD platforms are untested, but fio should work there almost out of the box. Since I don't do test runs or even compiles on those platforms, your