followed by the remaining zeroed. With this set to some chunk size smaller
than the block size, fio can alternate random and zeroed data throughout the
I/O buffer. This is particularly useful when bigger block sizes are used
-for a job.
+for a job. Defaults to 512.
.TP
.BI buffer_pattern \fR=\fPstr
If set, fio will fill the I/O buffers with this pattern or with the contents
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 libpmem
+Read and write using mmap I/O to a file on a filesystem
+mounted with DAX on a persistent memory device through the NVML
+libpmem library.
.SS "I/O engine specific parameters"
In addition, there are some parameters which are only valid when a specific
\fBioengine\fR is in use. These are used identically to normal parameters,
.B I
Thread initialized, waiting or generating necessary data.
.TP
-.B P
+.B p
Thread running pre\-reading file(s).
.TP
.B /