mtd: ioengine

[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 0f66b3a732f0c66dcf09955defe7ae0a9383ef04..2f72ab5fcb38ab91308a6d76e7e3bac15f35bad9 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -655,6 +655,13 @@ file out of those files based on the offset generated by fio backend. (see the
 example job file to create such files, use rw=write option). Please note, you
 might want to set necessary environment variables to work with hdfs/libhdfs
 properly.
+.TP
+.B 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.
 .RE
 .P
 .RE
@@ -1572,6 +1579,9 @@ Specifies the name of the Ceph pool containing the RBD.
 .TP
 .BI (rbd)clientname \fR=\fPstr
 Specifies the username (without the 'client.' prefix) used to access the Ceph cluster.
+.TP
+.BI (mtd)skipbad \fR=\fPbool
+Skip operations against known bad blocks.
 .SH OUTPUT
 While running, \fBfio\fR will display the status of the created jobs.  For
 example: