add FIO_FILENOHASH ioengine flag

[fio.git] / HOWTO

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@@ -1797,6 +1797,10 @@ I/O engine
                        absolute or relative. See :file:`engines/skeleton_external.c` for
                        details of writing an external I/O engine.
 
+               **filecreate**
+                       Simply create the files and do no IO to them.  You still need to
+                       set  `filesize` so that all the accounting still occurs, but no
+                       actual IO will be done other than creating the file.
 
 I/O engine specific parameters
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -2862,7 +2866,15 @@ Measurements and reporting
 
 .. option:: clat_percentiles=bool
 
-       Enable the reporting of percentiles of completion latencies.
+       Enable the reporting of percentiles of completion latencies.  This
+       option is mutually exclusive with :option:`lat_percentiles`.
+
+.. option:: lat_percentiles=bool
+
+       Enable the reporting of percentiles of IO latencies. This is similar
+       to :option:`clat_percentiles`, except that this includes the
+       submission latency. This option is mutually exclusive with
+       :option:`clat_percentiles`.
 
 .. option:: percentile_list=float_list