random: document default seed value

[fio.git] / HOWTO

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@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ unified_rw_reporting=bool   Fio normally reports statistics on a per
 
 randrepeat=bool        For random IO workloads, seed the generator in a predictable
                way so that results are repeatable across repetitions.
+               Defaults to true.
 
 randseed=int   Seed the random number generators based on this seed value, to
                be able to control what sequence of output is being generated.
@@ -1433,6 +1434,12 @@ replay_redirect=str While replaying I/O patterns using read_iolog the
                independent fio invocations.  Unfortuantely this also breaks
                the strict time ordering between multiple device accesses.
 
+replay_align=int       Force alignment of IO offsets and lengths in a trace
+               to this power of 2 value.
+
+replay_scale=int       Scale sector offsets down by this factor when
+               replaying traces.
+
 write_bw_log=str If given, write a bandwidth log of the jobs in this job
                file. Can be used to store data of the bandwidth of the
                jobs in their lifetime. The included fio_generate_plots
@@ -2010,6 +2017,7 @@ before it can be used with this format. The offset and length are given in
 bytes. The action can be one of these:
 
 wait       Wait for 'offset' microseconds. Everything below 100 is discarded.
+          The time is relative to the previous wait statement.
 read       Read 'length' bytes beginning from 'offset'
 write      Write 'length' bytes beginning from 'offset'
 sync       fsync() the file