http://git.kernel.dk/fio.git
-Snapshots are frequently generated and include the git meta data as well.
+Snapshots are frequently generated and fio-git-*.tar.gz include the git
+meta data as well. Other tarballs are archives of official fio releases.
Snapshots can download from:
http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/
Rebecca Cran <rebecca+fio@bluestop.org> has fio packages for Windows at
http://www.bluestop.org/fio/ .
+BSDs:
+Packages for BSDs may be available from their binary package repositories.
+Look for a package "fio" using their binary package managers.
+
Mailing list
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Building
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-Just type 'configure', 'make' and 'make install'.
+Just type './configure', 'make' and 'make install'.
-Note that GNU make is required. On BSD it's available from devel/gmake;
-on Solaris it's in the SUNWgmake package. On platforms where GNU make
-isn't the default, type 'gmake' instead of 'make'.
+Note that GNU make is required. On BSDs it's available from devel/gmake
+within ports directory; on Solaris it's in the SUNWgmake package.
+On platforms where GNU make isn't the default, type 'gmake' instead of 'make'.
Configure will print the enabled options. Note that on Linux based
platforms, the libaio development packages must be installed to use
--debug Enable some debugging options (see below)
--parse-only Parse options only, don't start any IO
--output Write output to file
- --runtime Runtime in seconds
--bandwidth-log Generate aggregate bandwidth logs
--minimal Minimal (terse) output
--output-format=type Output format (terse,json,json+,normal)
Client/server
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+-------------
Normally fio is invoked as a stand-alone application on the machine
where the IO workload should be generated. However, the frontend and