engines: add engine for file stat

[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index cf5dd853dda1b2f0cac3d7ab8776bf5b2ed7cf00..6283fc1d92931fd860915c92735d0f9136c3ac7e 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -1760,6 +1760,11 @@ Simply create the files and do no I/O to them.  You still need to set
 \fBfilesize\fR so that all the accounting still occurs, but no actual I/O will be
 done other than creating the file.
 .TP
+.B filestat
+Simply do stat() and do no I/O to the file. You need to set 'filesize'
+and 'nrfiles', so that files will be created.
+This engine is to measure file lookup and meta data access.
+.TP
 .B 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