X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=31d53fe4aa3f892e1ee3bbfbb7dd07e5716ca92c;hp=2fa8e1bbac41db9af25546753480f1bf370e6567;hb=0cbb3f53ebeec45478c7b361c2a84092da93e4a8;hpb=95a12fbe88afa768926403c5a4ef53346ba2544d

diff --git a/README b/README
index 2fa8e1bb..31d53fe4 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@ If git:// does not work, use the http protocol instead:
 
 	http://git.kernel.dk/fio.git
 
-Snapshots are frequently generated and include the git meta data as well.
+Snapshots are frequently generated and fio-git-*.tar.gz include the git
+meta data as well. Other tarballs are archives of official fio releases.
 Snapshots can download from:
 
 	http://brick.kernel.dk/snaps/
@@ -68,6 +69,10 @@ Windows:
 Rebecca Cran <rebecca+fio@bluestop.org> has fio packages for Windows at
 http://www.bluestop.org/fio/ .
 
+BSDs:
+Packages for BSDs may be available from their binary package repositories.
+Look for a package "fio" using their binary package managers.
+
 
 Mailing list
 ------------
@@ -93,11 +98,11 @@ and archives for the old list can be found here:
 Building
 --------
 
-Just type 'configure', 'make' and 'make install'.
+Just type './configure', 'make' and 'make install'.
 
-Note that GNU make is required. On BSD it's available from devel/gmake;
-on Solaris it's in the SUNWgmake package. On platforms where GNU make
-isn't the default, type 'gmake' instead of 'make'.
+Note that GNU make is required. On BSDs it's available from devel/gmake
+within ports directory; on Solaris it's in the SUNWgmake package.
+On platforms where GNU make isn't the default, type 'gmake' instead of 'make'.
 
 Configure will print the enabled options. Note that on Linux based
 platforms, the libaio development packages must be installed to use
@@ -148,7 +153,6 @@ $ fio
 	--debug			Enable some debugging options (see below)
 	--parse-only		Parse options only, don't start any IO
 	--output		Write output to file
-	--runtime		Runtime in seconds
 	--bandwidth-log		Generate aggregate bandwidth logs
 	--minimal		Minimal (terse) output
 	--output-format=type	Output format (terse,json,json+,normal)
@@ -259,7 +263,7 @@ the copyright and license requirements currently apply to examples/ files.
 
 
 Client/server
-------------
+-------------
 
 Normally fio is invoked as a stand-alone application on the machine
 where the IO workload should be generated. However, the frontend and