Merge branch 'asmfix' of https://github.com/oohal/fio

[fio.git] / README

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+++ b/README
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ Mailing list
 ------------
 
 The fio project mailing list is meant for anything related to fio including
-general discussion, bug reporting, questions, and development.
+general discussion, bug reporting, questions, and development. For bug reporting,
+see REPORTING-BUGS.
 
 An automated mail detailing recent commits is automatically sent to the list at
 most daily. The list address is fio@vger.kernel.org, subscribe by sending an
@@ -102,12 +103,16 @@ Ubuntu:
 Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS & Co:
        Starting with Fedora 9/Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 4, fio
        packages are part of the Fedora/EPEL repositories.
-       https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/fio/ .
+       https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/fio .
 
 Mandriva:
        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
@@ -176,7 +181,9 @@ To build fio on 32-bit Windows, run ``./configure --build-32bit-win`` before
 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 and
 signal issues when running it under a Cygwin shell (see
-http://code.google.com/p/mintty/issues/detail?id=56 for details).
+https://github.com/mintty/mintty/issues/56 and
+https://github.com/mintty/mintty/wiki/Tips#inputoutput-interaction-with-alien-programs
+for details).
 
 
 Documentation
@@ -205,10 +212,10 @@ implemented, I'd be happy to take patches for that. An example of that is disk
 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