You are benchmarking a new NVMe drive and need fio to generate 4 KiB random writes for a full 60 seconds, regardless of how quickly it reaches the end of the device. The current command ends after a single pass through the drive and exits in only a few seconds:
--time_based (or time_based=1 in a job file) tells fio to keep re-issuing the same workload until the runtime value expires. Without this flag, fio stops as soon as it has processed all the requested I/O or reached the end of the file/device, which is why the original test quits early.
Why the other choices are wrong:
--ramp_time=60 adds a 60-second lead-in period before statistics are collected, increasing total run time, but it still allows the job to stop once it hits the end of the device; it does not force continuous looping.
--loops=0 is not valid-loops must be a positive integer specifying how many iterations to run.
--norandommap=1 changes how random offsets are selected but has no effect on overall run duration.
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