Re: [patch 0/9] Collection of various fio fixes and extensions V2

[Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 20/02/14 18:20, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20 2014, ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
>> *Resend with hopefully non mangled patches*
>>
>> Hi,
>> we adopted fio as a very good tool back at version 1.57.
>> It suited our needs in replacing iozone with a more modern and more capable
>> benchmarking tool.
>
> Glad to hear it!
>
>> As it is usually we needed a few little extensions to support the old use
>> cases we wanted to migrate to the new benchmark. Also we found a few issues
>> in the fio code that we had to fix.
>>
>> All that happened a long time back and we always wanted to cotribute our
>> changes to the project which after a loooong legal process now is finally
>> possible. To make things worse the code was affected by some bit rot due
>> to that legal waiting time which in turn stalled me making it ready for
>> submission again.
>>
>> I'm happy that I finally found some time to update the patches to match to
>> the current fio git. It passed my 18 test cases which are based on the
>> examples delivered with fio new for the new functionality added.
>
> I have applied all of the patches directly, except for 8/9. I fixed up
> the options issues I noted, and also fixed up rbd not being updated for
> the multidirectory support.
>

Great, thanks for fixing up these option files I missed - you definitely 
get a Good-Hearted-Maintainer Karma bonus for that :-)

I'll discuss patch #8 with the Author once again and give you our joint 
point of view on that later on.