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index ef2b631d..0f9c0fc2 100644
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -262,7 +262,8 @@ description=str	Text description of the job. Doesn't do anything except
 		not parsed.
 
 directory=str	Prefix filenames with this directory. Used to place files
-		in a different location than "./".
+		in a different location than "./". See the 'filename' option
+		for escaping certain characters.
 
 filename=str	Fio normally makes up a filename based on the job name,
 		thread number, and file number. If you want to share
@@ -518,6 +519,8 @@ bs_is_seq_rand	If this option is set, fio will use the normal read,write
 
 zero_buffers	If this option is given, fio will init the IO buffers to
 		all zeroes. The default is to fill them with random data.
+		The resulting IO buffers will not be completely zeroed,
+		unless scramble_buffers is also turned off.
 
 refill_buffers	If this option is given, fio will refill the IO buffers
 		on every submit. The default is to only fill it at init
@@ -936,8 +939,9 @@ cpus_allowed_policy=str Set the policy of how fio distributes the CPUs
 		split	Each job will get a unique CPU from the CPU set.
 
 		'shared' is the default behaviour, if the option isn't
-		specified. If split is specified, then fio will error out if
-		there are more jobs defined than CPUs given in the set.
+		specified. If split is specified, then fio will will assign
+		one cpu per job. If not enough CPUs are given for the jobs
+		listed, then fio will roundrobin the CPUs in the set.
 
 numa_cpu_nodes=str Set this job running on spcified NUMA nodes' CPUs. The
 		arguments allow comma delimited list of cpu numbers,