X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=README;h=7c93d1fce13b1d02994faf302cfa0f7b0a5d931c;hb=cdcac5cf0e9262105e676874d11c4639a80574eb;hp=cc84fede5054adf38003872a21d93fa7bf92bcd7;hpb=7d130d8d2a5638ca91dc81ec085acef4d3c3ad08;p=fio.git diff --git a/README b/README index cc84fede..7c93d1fc 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -109,9 +109,9 @@ Windows 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 @@ -137,12 +137,15 @@ $ fio --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 + --max-jobs Maximum number of threads/processes to support Any parameters following the options will be assumed to be job files, @@ -286,11 +289,8 @@ The job file parameters are: can be used to gauge hard drive speed over the entire platter, without reading everything. Both x/y can include k/m/g suffix. - iolog=x Open and read io pattern from file 'x'. The file must - contain one io action per line in the following format: - rw, offset, length - where with rw=0/1 for read/write, and the offset - and length entries being in bytes. + read_iolog=x Open and read io pattern from file 'x'. The file format + is described in the HOWTO. 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. Specify a separate file @@ -314,10 +314,10 @@ The job file parameters are: Platforms --------- -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). +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). 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