Re: Recent changes

[Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>]

Do as follow:

DO NOT mount partition on /mnt
run fio.

OR

mount partition on /mnt
use /mnt in fio jobfile. do not use partition.

Thanks,
-guru


Girish Satihal wrote:
> Hi Guru,
> I first mount the paritition with ext3 files system on /mnt and run the 
> fio test on the device.
> When you run mount command you can see the device is mounted on /mnt 
> with ext3 file system. Let me know if you have anything to say on this. 
> Did you ever try such testing earlier?
>  
> Thanks,
>  Girish
> 
> --- On *Wed, 4/22/09, Gurudas Pai /<gurudas.pai@oracle.com>/* wrote:
> 
>     From: Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@oracle.com>
>     Subject: Re: Recent changes
>     To: "Girish Satihal" <girish.satihal@yahoo.com>
>     Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org
>     Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 11:23 AM
> 
>     Girish,
> 
>     > The reason for saying ext3, is I run fdisk on /dev/cciss/c1d0 and created
>     a primary partition.
>     > Then I created a ext3 filesystem on this partition by running mkefs and
>     mounted this partition 
>     > on /mnt folder. Then I run fio on this partition.
>     you run it on disk directly(/dev/cciss/c1d0) without mounting it on /mnt.
> 
> 
>     Thanks,
>     -Guru
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