Re: How to re-use default sequential filenames?

[Alan Hagge <Alan.Hagge@warnerbros.com>]

On 04/08/2013 04:17 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08 2013, Michal Šmucr wrote:
>> 2013/4/5 Jens Axboe<axboe@kernel.dk>:
>>> and then 'write' and 'read' job would be sharing those files. Let me
>>> know if it works for you.
>> Thank you for patch Jens.
>> Re-using files working for me and i also like that string format
>> specification. Compiled with last git and tested on Mac OS X and
>> Centos 5.
>> I played with fio and sequence tests, it already helps me to get
>> figures much closer to real world utilization. I always struggled with
>> generic synthetic benchmarks as it usually don't work with sequences.
>> So i can roughly set IO sizes, modes, but for example can't simulate
>> performance differences caused by different file allocation between
>> one huge file (with few extents due to filesystem internal
>> optimization) and thousands of files.
>> Great!
> Thanks for testing and confirming that it both works and that the
> semantics make sense. I tagged 2.0.15 this morning and kept a few
> pending features/fixes in a 'next' branch, all have been pulled into the
> master branch. So the filename_format option is now in current -git,
> though it did not make 2.0.15 final.
I too was able to compile the git version and try a test this morning 
and it looks to be working just fine.  This will help us immensely.  
Thanks for the quick response and flexible solution!