Sitsofe Wheeler

Also as you seem to be more familiar with Windows dev could you see if you can start compiling fio and poking around? Your stack looks a bit bear which...

@ale-goncalves You've mentioned that you can clearly see that the I/O is happening synchronously so I have a couple of questions: - Which job file/options are you using? - Is...

@ale-goncalves ping. Would you be able to post some extra information on the previous questions?

@ale-goncalves I know it builds with either Cygwin64 or MSYS2. See https://github.com/axboe/fio/blob/master/ci/appveyor-install.sh for an idea of what you'd need to install (but you can skip cunit).

@argopal If someone steps up and submits the work I'm sure it would be considered - are you offering? It's worth noting there are caveats on what can be supported....

@argopal would file level trim have been sufficient?

Fio can write both directly to disks/partitions (no filesystem) and to files in a filesystem but as you said in your case could just create a filesystem.

@argopal All I know is that neither you 'nor I are working on it :-)

@bcran Here was my attempt at it: https://github.com/sitsofe/fio/commits/win_trim . If memory serves I found out your drive has to say it does Deterministic Zero After Trim for it to work...

@bcran Ah. I think the only place I saw it work reliability was when doing I/O within a dynamic virtual disk that was mounted as a filesystem...