X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=e378d3b0cd2a334787ccbeaa47835ab4610eb2c6;hp=e90f4938fc23879aab9ed57703c80c88015d55d7;hb=dc68fd2cde455260f28256ce8a29345c4061308b;hpb=1b8c5af7ba80122c91dce457e18c55b34e2c28b1

diff --git a/README b/README
index e90f4938..e378d3b0 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -26,6 +26,17 @@ Snapshots can download from:
 
 	http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/
 
+There are also two official mirrors. Both of these are synced within
+an hour of commits landing at git.kernel.dk. So if the main repo is
+down for some reason, either one of those is safe to use:
+
+	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/fio.git
+	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/fio.git
+
+or
+
+	https://github.com/axboe/fio.git
+
 
 Binary packages
 ---------------
@@ -101,28 +112,27 @@ To build FIO with a cross-compiler:
  $ make CROSS_COMPILE=/path/to/toolchain/prefix
 Configure will attempt to determine the target platform automatically.
 
+It's possible to build fio for ESX as well, use the --esx switch to
+configure.
+
 
 Windows
 -------
 
-On Windows Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) is required in order to
-build fio. To create an MSI installer package install WiX 3.7 from
+On Windows, Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) is required in order to
+build fio. To create an MSI installer package install WiX 3.8 from
 http://wixtoolset.org and run dobuild.cmd from the
 os/windows directory.
 
-How to compile FIO on 64-bit Windows:
+How to compile fio on 64-bit Windows:
 
- 1. Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe). Install 'make' and all
+ 1. Install Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/). Install 'make' and all
     packages starting with 'mingw64-i686' and 'mingw64-x86_64'.
- 2. Download ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/prebuilt-dll-2-9-1-release/dll/x64/pthreadGC2.dll
-    and copy to the fio source directory.
- 3. Open the Cygwin Terminal.
- 4. Go to the fio directory (source files).
- 5. Run 'make clean'.
- 6. Run 'make'.
+ 2. Open the Cygwin Terminal.
+ 3. Go to the fio directory (source files).
+ 4. Run 'make clean && make -j'.
 
-To build fio on 32-bit Windows, download x86/pthreadGC2.dll instead and do
-'./configure --build-32bit-win=yes' before 'make'.
+To build fio on 32-bit Windows, run './configure --build-32bit-win' before 'make'.
 
 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
@@ -138,7 +148,6 @@ $ fio
 	--parse-only		Parse options only, don't start any IO
 	--output		Write output to file
 	--runtime		Runtime in seconds
-	--latency-log		Generate per-job latency logs
 	--bandwidth-log		Generate per-job bandwidth logs
 	--minimal		Minimal (terse) output
 	--output-format=type	Output format (terse,json,normal)
@@ -146,6 +155,7 @@ $ fio
 	--version		Print version info and exit
 	--help			Print this page
 	--cpuclock-test		Perform test/validation of CPU clock
+	--crctest[=test]	Test speed of checksum functions
 	--cmdhelp=cmd		Print command help, "all" for all of them
 	--enghelp=engine	Print ioengine help, or list available ioengines
 	--enghelp=engine,cmd	Print help for an ioengine cmd
@@ -166,6 +176,7 @@ $ fio
 	--idle-prof=option	Report cpu idleness on a system or percpu basis
 				(option=system,percpu) or run unit work
 				calibration only (option=calibrate).
+	--inflate-log=log	Inflate and output compressed log
 
 
 Any parameters following the options will be assumed to be job files,
@@ -199,6 +210,7 @@ Currently, additional logging is available for:
 	time		Dump info related to internal time keeping
 	net		Dump info related to networking connections
 	rate		Dump info related to IO rate switching
+	compress	Dump info related to log compress/decompress
 	? or help	Show available debug options.
 
 One can specify multiple debug options: e.g. --debug=file,mem will enable