On 2014-09-30 03:17, Andrey Kuzmin wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Jon Tango <[email protected]> wrote:

The same thing could be done by partitioning the SSD in the operating system 
with the desired partition size, and then running a time-based fio job against 
the partition.

Basically, fio options offset/size should yield the same net result, but I'm 
always unsure on what is the actual effect of mixing size and time_based in a 
single job, and whether fio will wrap around the specified size to the 
specified offset if the job is time-based. HOWTO could have used some 
clarification on size/time_based interaction.

Regards,
Andrey

On Sep 30, 2014 11:41 AM, "Sitsofe Wheeler" <[email protected]> wrote:

On 30 September 2014 07:34, Jon Tango <[email protected]> wrote:

The taskfile is this:

I should have been more specific - you need to show both the _vdbench_
parameter file that you are comparing to in addition to showing your
fio job file.

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I'm really wanting to avoid the filesystem, they create so much interference. I 
am focusing on just testing the raw device :)

I'm not sure why a filesystem should be involved in partitioning, that
happens at the raw device level.

I think there's some limitation in Windows that doesn't allow partition raw IO. I may be mistaken.

But I agree, partition would work. But just limiting the LBA range with size= will do the same job.

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