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[fio.git] / fio.1

diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 73fdee643af5ec3904064f1edf1015508eaba392..f521c9dbcf156dff4caef4366965b175e6345f80 100644 (file)
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -247,6 +247,11 @@ will be used if no other format specifier is given.
 .RE
 .P
 .TP
+.BI unique_filename \fR=\fPbool
+To avoid collisions between networked clients, fio defaults to prefixing
+any generated filenames (with a directory specified) with the source of
+the client connecting. To disable this behavior, set this option to 0.
+.TP
 .BI lockfile \fR=\fPstr
 Fio defaults to not locking any files before it does IO to them. If a file or
 file descriptor is shared, fio can serialize IO to that file to make the end
@@ -566,10 +571,24 @@ Round robin over opened files (default).
 .TP
 .B sequential
 Do each file in the set sequentially.
+.TP
+.B zipf
+Use a zipfian distribution to decide what file to access.
+.TP
+.B pareto
+Use a pareto distribution to decide what file to access.
+.TP
+.B gauss
+Use a gaussian (normal) distribution to decide what file to access.
 .RE
 .P
-The number of I/Os to issue before switching to a new file can be specified by
-appending `:\fIint\fR' to the service type.
+For \fBrandom\fR, \fBroundrobin\fR, and \fBsequential\fR, a postfix can be
+appended to tell fio how many I/Os to issue before switching to a new file.
+For example, specifying \fBfile_service_type=random:8\fR would cause fio to
+issue \fI8\fR I/Os before selecting a new file at random. For the non-uniform
+distributions, a floating point postfix can be given to influence how the
+distribution is skewed. See \fBrandom_distribution\fR for a description of how
+that would work.
 .RE
 .TP
 .BI ioengine \fR=\fPstr
@@ -700,6 +719,9 @@ treated as erases. Depending on the underlying device type, the I/O may have
 to go in a certain pattern, e.g., on NAND, writing sequentially to erase blocks
 and discarding before overwriting. The writetrim mode works well for this
 constraint.
+.TP
+.B pmemblk
+Read and write through the NVML libpmemblk interface.
 .RE
 .P
 .RE
@@ -1180,12 +1202,14 @@ Terminate all jobs if one job finishes in error.  Default: wait for each job
 to finish.
 .TP
 .BI bwavgtime \fR=\fPint
-Average bandwidth calculations over the given time in milliseconds.  Default:
-500ms.
+Average bandwidth calculations over the given time in milliseconds. If the job
+also does bandwidth logging through \fBwrite_bw_log\fR, then the minimum of
+this option and \fBlog_avg_msec\fR will be used.  Default: 500ms.
 .TP
 .BI iopsavgtime \fR=\fPint
-Average IOPS calculations over the given time in milliseconds.  Default:
-500ms.
+Average IOPS calculations over the given time in milliseconds. If the job
+also does IOPS logging through \fBwrite_iops_log\fR, then the minimum of
+this option and \fBlog_avg_msec\fR will be used.  Default: 500ms.
 .TP
 .BI create_serialize \fR=\fPbool
 If true, serialize file creation for the jobs.  Default: true.
@@ -2063,7 +2087,7 @@ This format is not supported in Fio versions => 1.20-rc3.
 .B Trace file format v2
 .RS
 The second version of the trace file format was added in Fio version 1.17.
-It allows to access more then one file per trace and has a bigger set of
+It allows one to access more then one file per trace and has a bigger set of
 possible file actions.
 
 The first line of the trace file has to be: