X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=cf48c018d66f45c4271020dc66b572254d6f468f;hp=e933bd55ef356a4eadebfc7bd1a9345ee094fd95;hb=c0a5d35ec77fae5cfe382d35ab18915ed6766504;hpb=062c6022d41233523669188e876e913abd6c4e2e diff --git a/README b/README index e933bd55..cf48c018 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ $ fio --readonly Turn on safety read-only checks, preventing writes --eta=when When ETA estimate should be printed May be "always", "never" or "auto" + --section=name Only run specified section in job file Any parameters following the options will be assumed to be job files, @@ -98,11 +99,19 @@ options in fio. Currently the options are: blktrace Dump info related to blktrace setup verify Dump info related to IO verification all Enable all debug options + random Dump info related to random offset generation ? or help Show available debug options. You can specify as many as you want, eg --debug=file,mem will enable file and memory debugging. +The section switch is meant to make it easier to ship a bigger job file +instead of several smaller ones. Say you define a job file with light, +moderate, and heavy parts. Then you can ask fio to run the given part +only by giving it a --section=heavy command line option. The section +option only applies to job sections, the reserved 'global' section is +always parsed and taken into account. + Job file --------