values. It may also be a string, where the string must then be wrapped with
"".
.TP
+.BI dedupe_percentage \fR=\fPint
+If set, fio will generate this percentage of identical buffers when writing.
+These buffers will be naturally dedupable. The contents of the buffers depend
+on what other buffer compression settings have been set. It's possible to have
+the individual buffers either fully compressible, or not at all. This option
+only controls the distribution of unique buffers.
+.TP
.BI nrfiles \fR=\fPint
Number of files to use for this job. Default: 1.
.TP
set by \fBsize\fR, or if it exhaust the allocated time (or hits an error
condition). With this setting, the range/size can be set independently of
the number of IOs to perform. When fio reaches this number, it will exit
-normally and report status.
+normally and report status. Note that this does not extend the amount
+of IO that will be done, it will only stop fio if this condition is met
+before other end-of-job criteria.
.TP
.BI fsync \fR=\fPint
How many I/Os to perform before issuing an \fBfsync\fR\|(2) of dirty data. If