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There's a mailing list associated with fio. It's meant for general
-discussion, bug reporting, questions - basically anything that has to
-do with fio. An automated mail detailing recent commits is automatically
-sent to the list at most daily. The list address is fio-devel@kernel.dk,
-subscribe by sending an empty email to fio-devel+subscribe@kernel.dk.
+discussion, bug reporting, questions, and development - basically anything
+that has to do with fio. An automated mail detailing recent commits is
+automatically sent to the list at most daily. The list address is
+fio@vger.kernel.org, subscribe by sending an email to
+majordomo@vger.kernel.org with
+
+subscribe fio
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+in the body of the email. There is no archive for the new list yet,
+archives for the old list can be found here:
+
+http://maillist.kernel.dk/fio-devel/
Building
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Just type 'make' and 'make install'. If on FreeBSD, for now you have to
-specify the FreeBSD Makefile with -f, eg:
+specify the FreeBSD Makefile with -f and use gmake (not make), eg:
-$ make -f Makefile.Freebsd && make -f Makefile.FreeBSD install
+$ gmake -f Makefile.Freebsd && gmake -f Makefile.FreeBSD install
Likewise with OpenSolaris, use the Makefile.solaris to compile there.
-This might change in the future if I opt for an autoconf type setup.
+The OpenSolaris make should work fine. This might change in the
+future if I opt for an autoconf type setup.
If your compile fails with an error like this:
verify=x If 'x' == md5, use md5 for verifies. If 'x' == crc32,
use crc32 for verifies. md5 is 'safer', but crc32 is
a lot faster. Only makes sense for writing to a file.
+ For other types of checksumming, see HOWTO.
stonewall Wait for preceeding jobs to end before running.
numjobs=x Create 'x' similar entries for this job
thread Use pthreads instead of forked jobs