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