First snapshot of FIO for Windows
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
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@@ -271,12 +271,14 @@
can specify a number of files by separating the names with a
':' colon. So if you wanted a job to open /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
as the two working files, you would use
- filename=/dev/sda:/dev/sdb. If the wanted filename does need to
- include a colon, then escape that with a '\' character. For
- instance, if the filename is "/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", then you would
- use filename="/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\:c". '-' is a reserved name,
- meaning stdin or stdout. Which of the two depends on the read/write
- direction set.
+ filename=/dev/sda:/dev/sdb. On Windows, disk devices are accessed
+ as /dev/sda for the first device (i.e. \Device\HardDisk0\Partition0,
+ /dev/sda1 for the first partition on the first disk etc. If the
+ wanted filename does need to include a colon, then escape that with
+ a '\' character. For instance, if the filename is
+ "/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", then you would use filename="/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\:c".
+ '-' is a reserved name, meaning stdin or stdout. Which of the
+ two depends on the read/write direction set.
opendir=str Tell fio to recursively add any file it can find in this
directory and down the file system tree.
@@ -492,6 +494,8 @@
solarisaio Solaris native asynchronous io.
+ windowsaio Windows native asynchronous io.
+
mmap File is memory mapped and data copied
to/from using memcpy(3).