mtd: ioengine

[fio.git] / HOWTO

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@@ -770,6 +770,15 @@ ioengine=str       Defines how the job issues io to the file. The following
                                necessary environment variables to work with
                                hdfs/libhdfs properly.
 
+                       mtd     Read, write and erase an MTD character device
+                               (e.g., /dev/mtd0). Discards are treated as
+                               erases. Depending on the underlying device
+                               type, the I/O may have to go in a certain
+                               pattern, e.g., on NAND, writing sequentially
+                               to erase blocks and discarding before
+                               overwriting. The writetrim mode works well
+                               for this constraint.
+
                        external Prefix to specify loading an external
                                IO engine object file. Append the engine
                                filename, eg ioengine=external:/tmp/foo.o
@@ -1721,6 +1730,7 @@ be the starting port number since fio will use a range of ports.
                1         : allocate space immidietly inside defragment event,
                            and free right after event
 
+[mtd] skip_bad=bool    Skip operations against known bad blocks.
 
 
 6.0 Interpreting the output