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Failed to Load libaio During the fio Test

Symptom

During the fio test, a message is displayed indicating that the libaio engine fails to be loaded.

Key Process and Cause Analysis

The fio version installed on the client does not support libaio.

Conclusion and Solution

Install libaio-devel and recompile and install fio. The procedure is as follows:

  1. Install the libaio-devel dependency package using Yum.
    yum -y install libaio-devel
  2. Go to the fio source code directory.
    cd /path/to/fio/
  3. Configure compilation options.
    ./configure
  4. Perform the compilation.
    make
  5. Perform the installation.
    make install