flexible I/O tester

 fio is a tool that will spawn a number of threads or processes doing a
 particular type of I/O 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 I/O load
 one wants to simulate.
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 This package contains the command line version of fio and all additional
 command line tools. The package gfio contains the GTK+ based gui frontend
 for fio.