Thanks all!! Can someone tell me if you have any experience in generating files quickly(not sparse) in unix?
I want to generate millions of files under some directory Thanks in Advance! On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Filip Sneppe <filip.sne...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:57 PM, a b <testa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey Chas, > > > > Thanks much for your reply. I actually want to have some more control > over > > this. > > > > Thinking in way to initiate some in parallel also to get rid of ""OS"" > > specific things [if there] > > > dd is really pretty limited if you want to use it as a IO benchmarking tool > and automate stuff with it via Perl. > > Perhaps you want to look at more powerful IO load tools like IOzone. > As it happens, a quick google search tells me that IOzone actually has > some Perl modules to parse its output. > > Good luck & best regards, > Filip >
