X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=6bff82bdc1eced78d72ba32afc599bb2718da51a;hp=8f5385ef6fe5102db97275cf4c641bcdf852a9b6;hb=ac8ca2af38784d96a4ac2cb66f42cf152270ae97;hpb=f80dba8d2fc3052ab003c7cf3b19f1255210fae9 diff --git a/README b/README index 8f5385ef..6bff82bd 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -92,21 +92,26 @@ Binary packages Debian: Starting with Debian "Squeeze", fio packages are part of the official - Debian repository. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=fio. + Debian repository. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=fio . Ubuntu: Starting with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (aka "Lucid Lynx"), fio packages are part of the Ubuntu "universe" repository. - http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=fio. + http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=fio . -Red Hat, CentOS & Co: - Dag Wieërs has RPMs for Red Hat related distros, find them here: - http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/fio/. +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/ . 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 @@ -204,10 +209,10 @@ 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