FIO Windows update

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

HOWTO

@@ -272,11 +272,11 @@ filename=str	Fio normally makes up a filename based on the job name,
 		':' colon. So if you wanted a job to open /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
 		as the two working files, you would use
 		filename=/dev/sda:/dev/sdb. On Windows, disk devices are accessed
-		as /dev/sda for the first device (i.e. \Device\HardDisk0\Partition0,
-		/dev/sda1 for the first partition on the first disk etc.  If the 
-		wanted filename does need to include a colon, then escape that with 
-		a '\' character. For instance, if the filename is 
-		"/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", then you would use filename="/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\:c". 
+		as \\.\PhysicalDrive0 for the first device, \\.\PhysicalDrive1
+		for the second etc.  If the wanted filename does need to 
+		include a colon, then escape that with a '\' character. 
+		For instance, if the filename is "/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", 
+		then you would use filename="/dev/dsk/foo@3,0\:c". 
 		'-' is a reserved name, meaning stdin or stdout. Which of the 
 		two depends on the read/write direction set.
 

README

@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ Packages for Solaris are available from OpenCSW. Install their pkgutil
 tool (http://www.opencsw.org/get-it/pkgutil/) and then install fio via
 'pkgutil -i fio'.
 
+Windows:
+Bruce Cran <[email protected]> has fio packages for Windows at
+http://www.bluestop.org/fio .
+
 
 Mailing list
 ------------
@@ -79,10 +83,10 @@ http://maillist.kernel.dk/fio-devel/
 Building
 --------
 
-Just type 'make' and 'make install'. If on FreeBSD, for now you have to
-specify the FreeBSD Makefile with -f and use gmake (not make), eg:
+Just type 'make' and 'make install'. If on BSD, for now you have to
+specify the BSD Makefile with -f and use gmake (not make), eg:
 
-$ gmake -f Makefile.Freebsd && gmake -f Makefile.FreeBSD install
+$ gmake -f Makefile.FreeBSD && gmake -f Makefile.FreeBSD install
 
 Same goes for AIX:
 
@@ -132,7 +136,7 @@ unless they match a job file parameter. You can add as many as you want,
 each job file will be regarded as a separate group and fio will stonewall
 its execution.
 
-The --readonly switch is an extra safety guard to prevent accidentically
+The --readonly switch is an extra safety guard to prevent accidentally
 turning on a write setting when that is not desired. Fio will only write
 if rw=write/randwrite/rw/randrw is given, but this extra safety net can
 be used as an extra precaution. It will also enable a write check in the
@@ -294,8 +298,8 @@ The job file parameters are:
 Platforms
 ---------
 
-Fio works on (at least) Linux, Solaris, AIX, OSX, NetBSD, and FreeBSD. Some
-features and/or options may only be available on some of the platforms,
+Fio works on (at least) Linux, Solaris, AIX, OSX, NetBSD, Windows and FreeBSD.
+Some features and/or options may only be available on some of the platforms,
 typically because those features only apply to that platform (like the
 solarisaio engine, or the splice engine on Linux).