Specified target folder for benchmarking is not actually used by FIO

[louwrentius]

although with an issue, I ran it with the options below and it wrote the iotest.0.0 100g file into the local directory instead of in /var/tmp.

ls -l total 104857868 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5993 Apr 22 15:42 README.md drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 22 15:02 pycache -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1164 Apr 22 15:42 bench-fio.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14619 Apr 22 15:42 bench_fio lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Apr 22 16:15 bench_fio.py -> ./bench_fio -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1538 Apr 22 15:42 bench_fio_test.py -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 420 Apr 22 15:42 fio-job-template.fio -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107374182400 Apr 22 16:40 iotest.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Apr 22 15:42 requirements.txt drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 22 16:36 spice_test

./bench_fio --target /var/tmp --type folder --mode randread randwrite -b 4k -s 100g --output spice_test --iodepth 1 --numjobs 1 ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ +++ Fio Benchmark Script +++

Job template: ./fio-job-template.fio I/O Engine: libaio Number of benchmarks: 2 Estimated duration: 0:02:00 Devices to be tested: /var/tmp Test mode (read/write): randread randwrite IOdepth to be tested: 1 NumJobs to be tested: 1 Block size(s) to be tested: 4k Time per test (s): 60 File size: 100g

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[nwilson666]

It's now using the correct target folder. I believe this one can be closed.

[louwrentius]

Thank you for verifying.