Drew: I had sent Erik a wad of changes that added a "raw:" syntax to enable raw devices in the path string. Do you know if that was integrated?
Thanks, Richard. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:perf-discuss- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Wilson > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 7:25 AM > To: Demetri S. Mouratis > Cc: perf-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [perf-discuss] filebench source hints at raw device > support > > On 11/21/08 15:09, Demetri S. Mouratis wrote: > > Dear filebench gang, > > > > fileset.c shows some evidence of a way to use filebench against > individual raw device files instead of the 00000001/00000001 directory > structure implied by fileset names. I've been staring at it an hour or > more, and I can't figure out how to make it work. > > > > I've actually been trying to hack together a raw test by pre-creating > a directory tree where the last 00000001 file is actually a symlink to > /dev/vx/rdsk/demetridg/volume00. > > > > Unfortunately, I can only kinda make it work using multiple 'define > file' statements and hand-create each of the threads where each refers > to one of the files. Plus, something makes me pre-allocate it, which > is really, really slow for lots of 32GB devices. > > > > Any hints? > > > > ...Demetri > > > Demetri, > Use the "define file" option and use the path to raw devices and the > raw device name with it. For instance > > define file name=c2t0d0s2, path=/dev/dsk > > FileBench will detect that this is a raw disk partition and open it as > such. As long as you are super user you will be able to read and write > to it, so be CAREFUL what you do!!! > > A fileset of multiple raw devices would also be nice, but we don't have > that yet, so you will have to access each raw device as a separate file > for now. > > Drew > > > > _______________________________________________ > perf-discuss mailing list > perf-discuss@opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
