--latency-log is now gone

[fio.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index e90f4938fc23879aab9ed57703c80c88015d55d7..1f72876d5b889aaf07ab4335a57aa786f70687de 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -26,6 +26,17 @@ Snapshots can download from:
 
        http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/
 
+There are also two official mirrors. Both of these are synced within
+an hour of commits landing at git.kernel.dk. So if the main repo is
+down for some reason, either one of those is safe to use:
+
+       git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/fio.git
+       https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/fio.git
+
+or
+
+       https://github.com/axboe/fio.git
+
 
 Binary packages
 ---------------
@@ -101,28 +112,27 @@ To build FIO with a cross-compiler:
  $ make CROSS_COMPILE=/path/to/toolchain/prefix
 Configure will attempt to determine the target platform automatically.
 
+It's possible to build fio for ESX as well, use the --esx switch to
+configure.
+
 
 Windows
 -------
 
-On Windows Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) is required in order to
-build fio. To create an MSI installer package install WiX 3.7 from
+On Windows, Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) is required in order to
+build fio. To create an MSI installer package install WiX 3.8 from
 http://wixtoolset.org and run dobuild.cmd from the
 os/windows directory.
 
-How to compile FIO on 64-bit Windows:
+How to compile fio on 64-bit Windows:
 
- 1. Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe). Install 'make' and all
+ 1. Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/). Install 'make' and all
     packages starting with 'mingw64-i686' and 'mingw64-x86_64'.
- 2. Download ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-9-1-release/dll/x64/pthreadGC2.dll
-    and copy to the fio source directory.
- 3. Open the Cygwin Terminal.
- 4. Go to the fio directory (source files).
- 5. Run 'make clean'.
- 6. Run 'make'.
+ 2. Open the Cygwin Terminal.
+ 3. Go to the fio directory (source files).
+ 4. Run 'make clean && make -j'.
 
-To build fio on 32-bit Windows, download x86/pthreadGC2.dll instead and do
-'./configure --build-32bit-win=yes' before 'make'.
+To build fio on 32-bit Windows, run './configure --build-32bit-win' before 'make'.
 
 It's recommended that once built or installed, fio be run in a Command Prompt
 or other 'native' console such as console2, since there are known to be display
@@ -138,7 +148,6 @@ $ fio
        --parse-only            Parse options only, don't start any IO
        --output                Write output to file
        --runtime               Runtime in seconds
-       --latency-log           Generate per-job latency logs
        --bandwidth-log         Generate per-job bandwidth logs
        --minimal               Minimal (terse) output
        --output-format=type    Output format (terse,json,normal)
@@ -146,6 +155,7 @@ $ fio
        --version               Print version info and exit
        --help                  Print this page
        --cpuclock-test         Perform test/validation of CPU clock
+       --crctest[=test]        Test speed of checksum functions
        --cmdhelp=cmd           Print command help, "all" for all of them
        --enghelp=engine        Print ioengine help, or list available ioengines
        --enghelp=engine,cmd    Print help for an ioengine cmd