options: add 'unique_filename'

[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 5e4cd4ff2663df1bff00eabcdf7382673cc5a453..839a3592d5832ebf8788d7ffec3f28509345d21e 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -247,6 +247,11 @@ will be used if no other format specifier is given.
 .RE
 .P
 .TP
+.BI unique_filename \fR=\fPbool
+To avoid collisions between networked clients, fio defaults to prefixing
+any generated filenames (with a directory specified) with the source of
+the client connecting. To disable this behavior, set this option to 0.
+.TP
 .BI lockfile \fR=\fPstr
 Fio defaults to not locking any files before it does IO to them. If a file or
 file descriptor is shared, fio can serialize IO to that file to make the end