Re: Fio on solaris

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Mon, Nov 23 2009, Tom wrote:
> Thanks Jens!
> now it's possible to compile that, but (yes, we've a "but"), when I call:
> 
> > fio four_threads.fio
> fio: engine libaio not loadable
> fio: failed to load engine libaio
> fio: file:ioengines.c:98, func=dlopen, error=ld.so.1: fio: fatal: libaio:
> open failed: No such file or directory
> 
> I search for that libaio and found it
> 
> > ll    /usr/lib/libaio.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          21 Sep  4 10:28 /usr/lib/libaio.so
> -> ../../lib/libaio.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          21 Sep  4 10:28 /usr/lib/libaio.so.1
> -> ../../lib/libaio.so.1
> 
> > ll /lib/libaio.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root          11 Sep  4 10:34 /lib/libaio.so ->
> libaio.so.1
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin        46452 Feb 12  2009 /lib/libaio.so.1
> 
> but that on isn't the right one?
> 
> What kind of libaio have you installed at your SUN where ist it from? We
> have looked around. For Linux we found tonns of libaio and libaio-devel,
> but nothing for SUN.

The libaio engine is Linux specific. On Solaris, the available async
engines are posixaio and the native solarisaio.

-- 
Jens Axboe