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Date: Fri, 02 May 2014 09:49:58 -0600
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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To: Ajoy Aswadhati <ajoy@fastorsystems.com>, fio@vger.kernel.org
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On 05/02/2014 09:47 AM, Ajoy Aswadhati wrote:
> I am referring to only one 1GB file and want the data distributed randomly
> across the 1TB target disk.
> 1 TB disk can be raw without a file system. What is the algorithm for
> distributing this 1GB over the 1TB space?

Fio has no control over where the filesystem chooses to allocate the
physical blocks, so that's not a solvable problem from userspace.

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Jens Axboe