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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Gurvinder Singh <gurvindersinghdahiya@gmail.com>, fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: client/server test to write to single file from all clients
Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 19:15:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5727FBC2.1020000@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a001b187-7ced-1295-2f6d-80039621aa88@gmail.com>

On 05/01/2016 01:11 PM, Gurvinder Singh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all thanks for such a nice tool to do IO testing. I am
> wondering if it is possible to test accessing a single file from
> multiple clients to test distributed file system behavior.
>
> The reason for this test is to see if it has different behavior than
> having numjobs > 1 accessing same file running on same host.

Sure, you can do that. Fio doesn't really care about whether the file is 
shared or not. Obviously some things like verification might not work 
properly, but just reading and writing to a shared file, fio doesn't 
care if it's local or not.


-- 
Jens Axboe



  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-03  1:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-01 19:11 client/server test to write to single file from all clients Gurvinder Singh
2016-05-03  1:15 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2016-05-03  3:48   ` Gurvinder Singh
2016-05-03  5:34   ` Gurvinder Singh
2016-05-03 18:18     ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2016-05-22 22:25       ` Ben England
2016-05-23 14:38         ` Jens Axboe
2016-05-23 16:53         ` Gurvinder Singh

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