From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:57503 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754159Ab2EBMPy (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2012 08:15:54 -0400 Message-ID: <4FA1255F.9020301@kernel.dk> Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 14:15:27 +0200 From: Jens Axboe MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Tell fio to only lay out files References: <4FA0FB19.6010506@thomas-krenn.com> <4FA10E08.70009@fusionio.com> <4FA11FC5.4030202@thomas-krenn.com> <4FA120C2.6080205@kernel.dk> <4FA12358.7010204@thomas-krenn.com> <4FA123A3.5030801@kernel.dk> <4FA1249D.6000104@thomas-krenn.com> In-Reply-To: <4FA1249D.6000104@thomas-krenn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: fio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: fio@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Georg_Sch=F6nberger?= Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org On 05/02/2012 02:12 PM, Georg Sch=EF=BF=BDnberger wrote: > Same error after a clean compilation. > $ fio --version > fio-2.0.7-13-g3b7f > $ fio --create_only --name=3Dtest-read-4k-4G-1-jobs --directory=3D./tests > --rw=3Dread --size=3D10M --bs=3D4k --numjobs=3D4 > max value out of range: 4 (1 max) > max value out of range: 4 (1 max) Please don't top post, reply beneath what you are replying to. Parser looks confused, because you forgot to add the value for the create_only option. If you use --create_only=3D1 instead, it should work. I wonder why that isn't caught in the command line variant, if you put it in a job file it does catch it: axboe@nelson:/home/axboe/git/fio $ ./fio seq-null=20 Option create_only requires an argument fio: failed parsing create_only fio: job global dropped I'll take a look at that separately. --=20 Jens Axboe