From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:38926 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755659Ab3ANJKB (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:10:01 -0500 Message-ID: <50F3CB5F.8070507@kernel.dk> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:09:51 +0100 From: Jens Axboe MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: asking for an example job file References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: fio-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: fio@vger.kernel.org To: Hong Jiang Cc: fio On 2013-01-11 20:24, Hong Jiang wrote: > Hi there, > > I am pretty new to this tool, and currently evaluating it on both > linux and windows platforms. Would appreciate if someone shows me an > example of job file that can test this scenario: > > I have a share that's created out of the "cloud", on windows client > side it's mounted as a new drive, on linux it's mounted to a > directory. I would like to run some file op tests against the share. > > I tried to use the example job file that came with the package - > 1mbs_clients, modifying the "directory" parameter setting in the file, > but I am not sure it's really running against the share, as the result > looks exact the same when I ran the test on 2 different shares. > > Thanks in advance for your help! Delete the output files and run the test again? If the files are created, then you should be able to safely confirm that it is running where you think it is running. Fio will prefix any file with the --directory= setting. So if you did set it, it should work... -- Jens Axboe