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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 08:54:55 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Using offsets in fio
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On Tue, Apr 27 2010, DongJin Lee wrote:
> So for example, you'd expect, for example,
> at the end of 1TB position (1073741824 bytes) the offset is to be 1073741824
> ?

1073741824 byte offset would be 1GB.

> and similarly for end of 2TB position, the offset would be the twice?

Yeah, there's no magic there, it's simply a byte offset where the IO
will take place.

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Jens Axboe