From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <5429C839.7090408@kernel.dk> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 14:59:37 -0600 From: Jens Axboe MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Limit LBA Range References: <5429B424.7080903@kernel.dk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jon Tango , fio@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2014-09-29 14:46, Jon Tango wrote: > Thanks for the reply. the capacity of the SSD is 850GB, but I am trying to > run the workload continuously between 0 and 745GB of the capacity. I would > like to workload to be time based so that it continues to run, even if more > than 745 GB of data is written, but still within that same range. Is there a > method of continuing to run the workload from 0 to 745GB, even if more than > 745GB is written? (please don't top post) Sure, if you want it to run for 4h within that range, just do: runtime=4h timed_based -- Jens Axboe