Project Summary
fio is an I/O tool meant to be used both for benchmark and stress/hardware verification. It has support for 12 different types of I/O engines (sync, mmap, libaio, posixaio, SG v3, splice, null, network, syslet, guasi, and more), I/O priorities (for newer Linux kernels), rate I/O, forked or threaded jobs, and much more. It can work on block devices as well as files. fio accepts job descriptions in a simple-to-understand text format. Several example job files are included. fio displays all sorts of I/O performance information. It supports Linux, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris.
fio is extremely flexible and can be control IO in almost any fashion.
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has a well established, mature codebase
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took an estimated 25 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in December, 2005
ending with its most recent commit 5 days ago
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