[PATCH] Add full command line parameter support
You may now give full job options on the command line. Makes it easier
to script fio or for one-off runs, as you don't have to write a job file
and run that.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index 227bc51..3f4a667 100644
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -82,6 +82,12 @@
of those files. Internally that is the same as using the 'stonewall'
parameter described the the parameter section.
+If the job file contains only one job, you may as well just give the
+parameters on the command line. The command line parameters are identical
+to the job parameters, with a few extra that control global parameters
+(see README). For example, for the job file parameter iodepth=2, the
+mirror command line option would be --iodepth 2 or --iodepth=2.
+
fio does not need to run as root, except if the files or devices specified
in the job section requires that. Some other options may also be restricted,
such as memory locking, io scheduler switching, and descreasing the nice value.
@@ -136,7 +142,11 @@
We want to use async io here, with a depth of 4 for each file. We also
increased the buffer size used to 32KiB and define numjobs to 4 to
fork 4 identical jobs. The result is 4 processes each randomly writing
-to their own 64MiB file.
+to their own 64MiB file. Instead of using the above job file, you could
+have given the parameters on the command line. For this case, you would
+specify:
+
+$ fio --name=random-writers --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=4 --rw=randwrite --bs=32k --direct=0 --size=64m --numjobs=4
fio ships with a few example job files, you can also look there for
inspiration.