and portability stuff:
Added -z option. This is to be used with the -a option. It
provides more complete testing for small record sizes
when the file sizes are very large.
Added -y and -q to set record size range
Added command line to output
Put auto cross over back to 16 Meg
Add labels to the latency/offset output files.
Prevent mixed modes. Auto and throughput.
Added support for the Plus extended options.
Added support for -+u option. Cpu utilization.
Added network testing mode. -+m (Experimental) Tested: Linux, HP-UX
Added -xflag support for distributed mode.
Handle interrupts when in distributed mode.
Disable CPU utilization in distributed mode.
Add -+m cluster option to the help list and the list of options.
Enable more options in Cluster mode.
Add protocol version checking for distributed messages.
Add -+d file I/O diagnostic mode.
Fix some compiler warnings and implement the -+x option for
setting the multiplier used for file and record size incrementing.
Reduce the message traffic due to master's distribution of STOP. Only
one STOP distribution is needed. More can lead to socket buffer overflows.
Add -+p percentage read option.
Improve the mixed mode distribution algorithm.
Introduce -+r for O_RSYNC.
Add speed check code.
Increase maximum threads/procs to 256
Add contribs and -+t to help splash screen.
Disable fread and fwrite testing if mmap or async is in use.
Add pread/pwrite throughput testing
Permit smaller values for -n and -g
Make initial write in initfile() a page size request.
Stop test if file can not be written.
http://www.iozone.org/src/current/Changes.txt
I have patched the source however, to allow use of the pread/prwite
tests, via the -E extension mode. Also, the benchmark target has been fixed.
package uninstalled, with the exceptionof lmbench. Make non-batch
targets for all the benchmarks, and create a results target which
places all the results in /tmp for easier collection.
