Information about the package, fio, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The fio package is designed for, Multithreaded IO generation tool.
Package Name:
fio
Summary:
Multithreaded IO generation tool
Description:
fio is an I/O tool that will spawn a number of threads or processes doing a particular type of io action as specified by the user. fio takes a number of global parameters, each inherited by the thread unless otherwise parameters given to them overriding that setting is given. The typical use of fio is to write a job file matching the io load one wants to simulate.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.0.13
Release:
2.el6
Size:
227 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the fio package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install fio
This command will install fio on the server.
yum remove fio
This command will un-install fio on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fio, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove fio
This command will un-install fio on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove fio when using the -y flag.
yum update fio
This command will update fio to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove fio, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update fio
This command will update fio to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove fio when using the -y flag.
yum info fio
This command will show you core information about the fio package.
yum deplist fio
This command will show you the dependencies for fio. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update fio
This command will check if there is an update waiting on fio. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.