Robert LeBlanc

Well, Ubuntu has really made a mess of this. 20.04 is the only one (still supported) that has the legacy installer. In 22.04 it won't exist at all. I couldn't...

I'm not exactly sure what documentation that you are looking for. There is this documentation from Debian https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/ch04s02.en.html that talks about it. The path specified in the document contains the...

Can you do that in a script (by not having any kind of sync between RUN commands)? Or do you have to launch multiple IOR runs with mpirun and then...

We are trying to replicate our workloads and see how many/much we can run on some storage to verify it meets our demands before we cut a PO. Having a...

I think you make some good points. I'm going to lean on my experience with fio as I'm familiar with it and it does a really good job in most...

Do you have some suggestions on how to configure IOR jobs to accomplish what I'm looking for? I can understand that everything I'm looking for may not be available. Thanks!

I'm trying to write out millions of files of a certain size. `ior` struggles in this regard due to a single process per file. Is it possible to have ior...

Most of the large number of files is between 0.5MB and 1.0 MB per file. I have one test at 4.5MB and another at 200MB per file that I don't...

Question on MDtest. The rate numbers that are output at the end of the run is files/sec, correct? So to calculate bandwidth you would just multiply that by the write/read...

Thanks! Another question. How compressible is https://github.com/hpc/ior/blob/3a34b2efb7b0d5faafa0802426907cef3c3f3fc3/src/mdtest.c#L214-L218? It seems that shoving an int into a byte array would either just leave the MSBs in the array (which may be only...