Re: Pull an external [global] section into an .fio file?

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 2014-07-29 19:30, Andrey Kuzmin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:47 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> My take would be to focus on the .fio file rather than on the
> command-line, as job files lend itself very well to the management and
> version control found in the test suite settings. Adding support for
> the include filenames... directive in .fio files would make the most
> sense to me in this respect.

Yes, an include directive would be useful. After writing the previous 
email I thought a bit more about it, and decided that the way to go 
would not be an extra --shared or --include, but rather just have that 
be the default behavior if a job file only had a global section. But we 
could still allow that, and add an include directive in the parser.

-- 
Jens Axboe