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+meta:
+- desc: |
+   generate read/write load with rados objects ranging from 1MB to 25MB
+workload:
+  full_sequential:
+    - workunit:
+        branch: octopus
+        clients:
+          client.0:
+            - rados/load-gen-big.sh
+    - print: "**** done rados/load-gen-big.sh workload"