solarisaio: IO depth constrained by MAXASYNCHIO

[fio.git] / README

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+++ b/README
@@ -57,6 +57,19 @@ $ make -f Makefile.Freebsd && make -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.
 
+If your compile fails with an error like this:
+
+    CC gettime.o
+In file included from fio.h:23,
+                 from gettime.c:8:
+os/os.h:15:20: error: libaio.h: No such file or directory
+In file included from gettime.c:8:
+fio.h:119: error: field 'iocb' has incomplete type
+make: *** [gettime.o] Error 1
+
+Check that you have the libaio development package installed. On RPM
+based distros, it's typically called libaio-devel.
+
 
 Command line
 ------------
@@ -103,6 +116,7 @@ options in fio. Currently the options are:
        random          Dump info related to random offset generation
        parse           Dump info related to option matching and parsing
        diskutil        Dump info related to disk utilization updates
+       job:x           Dump info only related to job number x
        ? or help       Show available debug options.
 
 You can specify as many as you want, eg --debug=file,mem will enable
@@ -157,8 +171,8 @@ The job file parameters are:
                        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
-                       using splice/vmsplice, sgio for direct SG_IO io, net
-                       for network io, or cpuio for a cycler burner load. sgio
+                       using splice/vmsplice, sg for direct SG_IO io, net
+                       for network io, or cpuio for a cycler burner load. sg
                        only works on Linux on SCSI (or SCSI-like devices, such
                        as usb-storage or sata/libata driven) devices. Fio also
                        has a null io engine, which is mainly used for testing