http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/
+There are also two official mirrors. Both of these are synced within
+an hour of commits landing at git.kernel.dk. So if the main repo is
+down for some reason, either one of those is safe to use:
+
+ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/fio.git
+ https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/fio.git
+
+or
+
+ https://github.com/axboe/fio.git
+
Binary packages
---------------
$ make CROSS_COMPILE=/path/to/toolchain/prefix
Configure will attempt to determine the target platform automatically.
+It's possible to build fio for ESX as well, use the --esx switch to
+configure.
+
Windows
-------
-On Windows Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) is required in order to
-build fio. To create an MSI installer package install WiX 3.7 from
+On Windows, Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) is required in order to
+build fio. To create an MSI installer package install WiX 3.8 from
http://wixtoolset.org and run dobuild.cmd from the
os/windows directory.
-How to compile FIO on 64-bit Windows:
+How to compile fio on 64-bit Windows:
- 1. Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe). Install 'make' and all
+ 1. Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/). Install 'make' and all
packages starting with 'mingw64-i686' and 'mingw64-x86_64'.
- 2. Download ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-9-1-release/dll/x64/pthreadGC2.dll
- and copy to the fio source directory.
- 3. Open the Cygwin Terminal.
- 4. Go to the fio directory (source files).
- 5. Run 'make clean'.
- 6. Run 'make'.
+ 2. Open the Cygwin Terminal.
+ 3. Go to the fio directory (source files).
+ 4. Run 'make clean && make -j'.
-To build fio on 32-bit Windows, download x86/pthreadGC2.dll instead and do
-'./configure --build-32bit-win=yes' before 'make'.
+To build fio on 32-bit Windows, run './configure --build-32bit-win' before 'make'.
It's recommended that once built or installed, fio be run in a Command Prompt
or other 'native' console such as console2, since there are known to be display
--parse-only Parse options only, don't start any IO
--output Write output to file
--runtime Runtime in seconds
- --latency-log Generate per-job latency logs
--bandwidth-log Generate per-job bandwidth logs
--minimal Minimal (terse) output
--output-format=type Output format (terse,json,normal)
--version Print version info and exit
--help Print this page
--cpuclock-test Perform test/validation of CPU clock
+ --crctest[=test] Test speed of checksum functions
--cmdhelp=cmd Print command help, "all" for all of them
--enghelp=engine Print ioengine help, or list available ioengines
--enghelp=engine,cmd Print help for an ioengine cmd
Platforms
---------
-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).
+Fio works on (at least) Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, OSX, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
+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