Add 'allow_mounted_write' option

[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index d5e5536b8fc59b5a4beb472154ee0a2054762c1b..36f80d6cd6d6bf879015245227aad9b4e15c9442 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -1080,6 +1080,12 @@ If true, fio is permitted to create files as part of its workload. This is
 the default behavior. If this option is false, then fio will error out if the
 files it needs to use don't already exist. Default: true.
 .TP
+.BI allow_mounted_write \fR=\fPbool
+If this isn't set, fio will abort jobs that are destructive (eg that write)
+to what appears to be a mounted device or partition. This should help catch
+creating inadvertently destructive tests, not realizing that the test will
+destroy data on the mounted file system. Default: false.
+.TP
 .BI pre_read \fR=\fPbool
 If this is given, files will be pre-read into memory before starting the given
 IO operation. This will also clear the \fR \fBinvalidate\fR flag, since it is