Hi,
I forgot to mention another handy change that went in recently - fio now
supports including files from job files. This should make it easier to
manage a test harness of fio files, since you can have more manageable
files with a global (or per-host, whatever) include fio that has options
for that particular instance. It's pretty simple to use, here's the
section that was added to the HOWTO to explain it:
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When fio is utilized as a basis of any reasonably large test suite, it
might be desirable to share a set of standardized settings across
multiple job files. Instead of copy/pasting such settings, any section
may pull in an external .fio file with 'include filename' directive, as
in the following example:
; -- start job file including.fio --
[global]
filename=/tmp/test
filesize=1m
include glob-include.fio
[test]
rw=randread
bs=4k
time_based=1
runtime=10
include test-include.fio
; -- end job file including.fio --
; -- start job file glob-include.fio --
thread=1
group_reporting=1
; -- end job file glob-include.fio --
; -- start job file test-include.fio --
ioengine=libaio
iodepth=4
; -- end job file test-include.fio --
Settings pulled into a section apply to that section only (except global
section). Include directives may be nested in that any included file may
contain further include directive(s). Include files may not contain []
sections.
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This feature courtesy of Andrey Kuzmin <[email protected]> who
did all the work to make this feasible.
--
Jens Axboe
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