Add support for --remote-config

[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 2fbdb00d2f9f1b41ac15c6a3f2d9471d35cae3b6..91c307482e1588cec985afb398ffc7f2fa074ee0 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -117,10 +117,27 @@ may override any parameter set in global sections.
 .SS Types
 Some parameters may take arguments of a specific type.
 Anywhere a numeric value is required, an arithmetic expression may be used,
-provided it is surrounded by parentheses.  Suffixes currently do not
-work with arithmetic expressions.  Supported operators are
-addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
-The types used are:
+provided it is surrounded by parentheses. Supported operators are:
+.RS
+.RS
+.TP
+.B addition (+)
+.TP
+.B subtraction (-)
+.TP
+.B multiplication (*)
+.TP
+.B division (/)
+.TP
+.B modulus (%)
+.TP
+.B exponentiation (^)
+.RE
+.RE
+.P
+For time values in expressions, units are microseconds by default. This is
+different than for time values not in expressions (not enclosed in
+parentheses). The types used are:
 .TP
 .I str
 String: a sequence of alphanumeric characters.
@@ -1831,6 +1848,14 @@ does on the server side, to allow IP/hostname/socket and port strings.
 You can connect to multiple clients as well, to do that you could run:
 
 fio \-\-client=server2 \-\-client=server2 <job file(s)>
+
+If the job file is located on the fio server, then you can tell the server
+to load a local file as well. This is done by using \-\-remote-config:
+
+fio \-\-client=server \-\-remote-config /path/to/file.fio
+
+Then the fio serer will open this local (to the server) job file instead
+of being passed one from the client.
 .SH AUTHORS
 
 .B fio