X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=72ff465ed7ebe68c11960619733bf600c9394016;hp=9493c2a5caf9af03f655866c40163c6a21bd598e;hb=7595fa09fbf048c9045617668bf0159a6cb82eac;hpb=a881438b54e30b32cb98cfe26342365fc51c10b4 diff --git a/README b/README index 9493c2a5..72ff465e 100644 --- a/README +++ 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