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Hi,

In case you didn't notice, fio-2.0.7 was tagged yesterday. After tagging 2.0.7, I pulled in a few changes from the gfio branch that you might like to know about.

One is the ability to dump the normal end output while fio keeps running. This is useful for long running jobs, where you might like to know what's going on outside of just the IOPS and throughput numbers etc. If you send the master fio process a USR1 signal, it'll display the normal end of job output now and continue doing it's thing. It's done outside of the normal IO paths and by a separate thread off the signal, so impact on the actual job should be minimal.

Another change is the inclusion of parts of the git sha in the fio version output. It used to just be fio-2.0.6 for any version between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7, but now it also includes the current git sha:

axboe@nelson:/home/axboe/git/fio $ ./fio --version fio-2.0.7-5-g8423b

Since some people have scripts that parse the output, I thought I'd mention it here as well.

Outside of the master branch, gfio has made some progress. It's now good enough to run existing jobs, either locally or on a remote machine. There's still a bunch of things missing, like a better results manager, ability to print output, and actual working support for editing a job either from scratch or from an existing job file. If you are interested in this gtk2/3 frontend for fio, I'd encourage you to give it a shot. It's mostly for developers at this point, but any sort of input would be useful.

Jens Axboe

Am Donnerstag, 12. April 2012 schrieb Jens Axboe:

Hi!

Regarding packaging fio.

Do you think fio 2.0.7 is stable enough for packaging?

If so, I´d schedule updating the Debian package to it.

Initially you recommended to stick with 1.x.

Thanks,

Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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Yes, you can package 2.x now, it's stable.

Jens Axboe