--help Print this page
--cmdhelp=cmd Print command help, "all" for all of them
--showcmd Turn a job file into command line options
- --readonly Turn on safety read-only checks, preventing writes
+ --readonly Turn on safety read-only checks, preventing
+ writes
--eta=when When ETA estimate should be printed
May be "always", "never" or "auto"
- --section=name Only run specified section in job file
+ --section=name Only run specified section in job file. Multiple
+ sections can be specified.
--alloc-size=kb Set smalloc pool to this size in kb (def 1024)
--warnings-fatal Fio parser warnings are fatal
+ --max-jobs Maximum number of threads/processes to support
Any parameters following the options will be assumed to be job files,
Platforms
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-Fio works on (at least) Linux, Solaris, AIX, OSX, NetBSD, Windows and FreeBSD.
-Some features and/or options may only be available on some of the platforms,
-typically because those features only apply to that platform (like the
-solarisaio engine, or the splice engine on Linux).
+Fio works on (at least) Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, OSX, NetBSD, Windows
+and FreeBSD. Some features and/or options may only be available on some of
+the platforms, typically because those features only apply to that platform
+(like the solarisaio engine, or the splice engine on Linux).
Some features are not available on FreeBSD/Solaris even if they could be
implemented, I'd be happy to take patches for that. An example of that is