ioengines: implement dircreate, dirstat, dirdelete engines to fileoperations.c

[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 09c6b621c6ce875e8e82c43b9156bde616630751..63375c625726eb68f9bbafa8ca1bccce3ae68ba4 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -2004,6 +2004,21 @@ Simply delete files by unlink() and do no I/O to the file. You need to set 'file
 and 'nrfiles', so that files will be created.
 This engine is to measure file delete.
 .TP
+.B dircreate
+Simply create the directories 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 directories.
+.TP
+.B dirstat
+Simply do stat() and do no I/O to the directory. You need to set 'filesize'
+and 'nrfiles', so that directories will be created.
+This engine is to measure directory lookup and meta data access.
+.TP
+.B dirdelete
+Simply delete directories by unlink() and do no I/O to the directory. You need to set 'filesize'
+and 'nrfiles', so that directories will be created.
+This engine is to measure directory delete.
+.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