Debian:
Starting with Debian "Squeeze", fio packages are part of the official
- Debian repository. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=fio.
+ 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.
+ http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=fio .
-Red Hat, CentOS & Co:
- Dag Wieƫrs has RPMs for Red Hat related distros, find them here:
- http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/fio/.
+Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS & Co:
+ Starting with Fedora 9/Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 4, fio
+ packages are part of the Fedora/EPEL repositories.
+ https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/fio .
Mandriva:
Mandriva has integrated fio into their package repository, so installing
on that distro should be as easy as typing ``urpmi fio``.
+Arch Linux:
+ An Arch Linux package is provided under the Community sub-repository:
+ https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=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
utility statistics and (I think) huge page support, support for that does exist
in FreeBSD/Solaris.
-Fio uses pthread mutexes for signalling and locking and FreeBSD does not
-support process shared pthread mutexes. As a result, only threads are
-supported on FreeBSD. This could be fixed with sysv ipc locking or
-other locking alternatives.
+Fio uses pthread mutexes for signalling and locking and some platforms do not
+support process shared pthread mutexes. As a result, on such platforms only
+threads are supported. This could be fixed with sysv ipc locking or other
+locking alternatives.
Other \*BSD platforms are untested, but fio should work there almost out of the
box. Since I don't do test runs or even compiles on those platforms, your