On Windows Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com) is required with at least
devel/gcc4 and devel/make installed in order to build fio, and
admin/cygrunsrv to run it. You can also install devel/git to fetch/update
-the source files. To create an MSI installer package, install WiX 3.6 from
-http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/ and run dobuild.cmd from the
-os/windows directory.
+the source files. To create an MSI installer package put a copy of Cygwin
+in os\windows\fio, install WiX 3.6 from http://wix.sourceforge.net/releases/
+and run dobuild.cmd from the os/windows directory.
Before running fio you'll need to have a copy of cygserver running. Run
"/usr/bin/cygserver-config" from an elevated Cygwin shell (i.e. launch the
--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