http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/
-Pascal Bleser <guru@unixtech.be> has fio RPMs in his repository for
-SUSE variants, you can find them here:
+Binary packages
+---------------
+
+Debian:
+Starting with Debian "Squeeze", fio packages are part of the official
+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
+
+SUSE:
+Pascal Bleser <guru@unixtech.be> has fio RPMs in his repository for SUSE
+variants, you can find them here:
http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-navigation.php?cat=System/fio
+Red Hat, CentOS & Co:
Dag Wieƫrs has RPMs for Red Hat related distros, find them here:
-
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/fio/
+Mandriva:
Mandriva has integrated fio into their package repository, so installing
on that distro should be as easy as typing 'urpmi fio'.
+Solaris:
+Packages for Solaris are available from OpenCSW. Install their pkgutil
+tool (http://www.opencsw.org/get-it/pkgutil/) and then install fio via
+'pkgutil -i fio'.
+
+Windows:
+Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> has fio packages for Windows at
+http://www.bluestop.org/fio .
+
Mailing list
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Building
--------
-Just type 'make' and 'make install'. If on FreeBSD, for now you have to
-specify the FreeBSD Makefile with -f and use gmake (not make), eg:
+Just type 'make' and 'make install'. If on BSD, for now you have to
+specify the BSD Makefile with -f and use gmake (not make), eg:
-$ gmake -f Makefile.Freebsd && gmake -f Makefile.FreeBSD install
+$ gmake -f Makefile.FreeBSD && gmake -f Makefile.FreeBSD install
Same goes for AIX:
each job file will be regarded as a separate group and fio will stonewall
its execution.
-The --readonly switch is an extra safety guard to prevent accidentically
+The --readonly switch is an extra safety guard to prevent accidentally
turning on a write setting when that is not desired. Fio will only write
if rw=write/randwrite/rw/randrw is given, but this extra safety net can
be used as an extra precaution. It will also enable a write check in the
size=x Set file size to x bytes (x string can include k/m/g)
ioengine=x 'x' may be: aio/libaio/linuxaio for Linux aio,
posixaio for POSIX aio, solarisaio for Solaris
- native async IO, sync for regular read/write io,
+ native async IO, windowsaio for Windows native async IO,
+ sync for regular read/write io,
psync for regular pread/pwrite io, vsync for regular
readv/writev (with queuing emulation) mmap for mmap'ed
io, syslet-rw for syslet driven read/write, splice for
and length entries being in bytes.
write_iolog=x Write an iolog to file 'x' in the same format as iolog.
The iolog options are exclusive, if both given the
- read iolog will be performed.
+ read iolog will be performed. Specify a separate file
+ for each job, otherwise the iologs will be interspersed
+ and the file may be corrupt.
write_bw_log Write a bandwidth log.
write_lat_log Write a latency log.
lockmem=x Lock down x amount of memory on the machine, to
Platforms
---------
-Fio works on (at least) Linux, Solaris, AIX 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, 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