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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Andrey Kuzmin <andrey.v.kuzmin@gmail.com>
Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pull an external [global] section into an .fio file?
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:47:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D74395.6070900@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANvN+e=7M4A=g9ro1dmOJdC2NBj4+iEUaCYrwGfmGY+bpUsnNA@mail.gmail.com>

On 2014-07-28 19:42, Andrey Kuzmin wrote:
> When dealing with a growing number of fio test scripts, copy/pasting
> global section becomes error-prone and cumbersome. Is it possible (or
> how much effort would it be to add such a feature) to pull a named set
> of global settings into the .fio file?

Not currently possible, but I can see it being a useful feature. I'll 
add it to the list. Something ala

fio --shared globals.fio actual-job.fio

I added something similar back in April for command line jobs, where you 
can now do

fio --some-setting=1 --other-setting=2 actual-job.fio

and have that those settings be part of the global namespace.

-- 
Jens Axboe



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-29  6:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-28 17:42 Pull an external [global] section into an .fio file? Andrey Kuzmin
2014-07-28 18:21 ` Kulkarni, Vasu
2014-07-28 18:35   ` Carl Zwanzig
2014-07-29  5:28     ` Christian Ehrhardt
2014-07-29  6:47 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2014-07-29 17:30   ` Andrey Kuzmin
2014-07-30 12:25     ` Jens Axboe

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