'V' is a running state, not an idle state. Correct HOWTO.

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@@ -367,6 +367,15 @@ bssplit=str        Sometimes you want even finer grained control of the
                always add up to 100, if bssplit is given a range that adds
                up to more, it will error out.
 
+               bssplit also supports giving separate splits to reads and
+               writes. The format is identical to what bs= accepts. You
+               have to separate the read and write parts with a comma. So
+               if you want a workload that has 50% 2k reads and 50% 4k reads,
+               while having 90% 4k writes and 10% 8k writes, you would
+               specify:
+
+               bssplit=2k/50:4k/50,4k/90,8k/10
+
 blocksize_unaligned
 bs_unaligned   If this option is given, any byte size value within bsrange
                may be used as a block range. This typically wont work with
@@ -926,7 +935,7 @@ I           Thread initialized, waiting.
        M       Running, doing mixed sequential reads/writes.
        m       Running, doing mixed random reads/writes.
        F       Running, currently waiting for fsync()
-V              Running, doing verification of written data.
+       V       Running, doing verification of written data.
 E              Thread exited, not reaped by main thread yet.
 _              Thread reaped.