engines: add engine for file delete

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                        and 'nrfiles', so that files will be created.
                        This engine is to measure file lookup and meta data access.
 
+               **filedelete**
+                       Simply delete the files by unlink() and do no I/O to them. You need to set 'filesize'
+                       and 'nrfiles', so that the files will be created.
+                       This engine is to measure file delete.
+
                **libpmem**
                        Read and write using mmap I/O to a file on a filesystem
                        mounted with DAX on a persistent memory device through the PMDK