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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: "Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)" <Elliott@hp.com>,
	"fio@vger.kernel.org" <fio@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@gmail.com>, Jon Tango <cheerios123@outlook.com>
Subject: Re: linux /dev and normal files
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 11:32:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55521D16.4070706@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <551EDAD7.3050803@kernel.dk>

On 04/03/2015 02:24 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 04/03/2015 12:13 PM, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote:
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: fio-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:fio-owner@vger.kernel.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Jens Axboe
>>> Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2014 1:32 PM
>>> To: Elliott, Robert (Server Storage); fio@vger.kernel.org
>>> Cc: Sitsofe Wheeler; Jon Tango
>>> Subject: Re: linux /dev and normal files
>>>
>>> On 10/02/2014 12:21 PM, Elliott, Robert (Server Storage) wrote:
>>>>>>> It might be better to continue to attempt to run the
>>>>>>> other jobs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We should just go for the simpler create/nocreate solution, I prefer
>>>>>> that. This is too involved, and it's hard to get all the cases right
>>>>>> since there are a bunch of different ways that files are added. Which
>>>>>> was why this patch only focused on filename=, since that is the one
>>> that
>>>>>> is the most interesting. But it still isn't pretty. If we add the
>>>>>> allow_file_create option, it's basically a two-liner change in a few
>>>>>> places to not use O_CREAT.
>>>>>
>>>>> That took roughly 4 minutes... Does this work? Set allow_file_create=0
>>>>> to disallow creating new files.
>> ...
>>>
>>> OK, let me test that, will spin a new one.
>>
>> I don't think this ever got added.
>
> It didn't... Did you re-test? No reason we can't get it added, I'll look
> into it start next week.

Robert, I added this. Can you check current -git and see if it behaves 
as expected for you?

-- 
Jens Axboe



  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-12 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-30 23:49 linux /dev and normal files Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2014-10-01  1:02 ` Jens Axboe
2014-10-01  1:12   ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2014-10-01  1:17     ` Jens Axboe
2014-10-01  3:43       ` Jens Axboe
2014-10-01  7:36         ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2014-10-01 14:20           ` Jens Axboe
2014-10-01 14:31             ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2014-10-01 23:52         ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2014-10-02  0:58           ` Jens Axboe
2014-10-02  1:03             ` Jens Axboe
2014-10-02 18:21               ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2014-10-02 18:32                 ` Jens Axboe
2014-10-02 18:41                   ` Jens Axboe
2015-04-03 18:13                   ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2015-04-03 18:24                     ` Jens Axboe
2015-05-12 15:32                       ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2015-05-12 16:34                         ` Elliott, Robert (Server Storage)
2015-05-12 17:56                           ` Jens Axboe

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