HOWTO: remove old use cases for the net IO engine

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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@@ -329,18 +329,15 @@ directory=str     Prefix filenames with this directory. Used to place files
 filename=str   Fio normally makes up a filename based on the job name,
                thread number, and file number. If you want to share
                files between threads in a job or several jobs, specify
 filename=str   Fio normally makes up a filename based on the job name,
                thread number, and file number. If you want to share
                files between threads in a job or several jobs, specify

-               a filename for each of them to override the default. If
-               the ioengine used is 'net', the filename is the host, port,
-               and protocol to use in the format of =host,port,protocol.
-               See ioengine=net for more. If the ioengine is file based, you
-               can specify a number of files by separating the names with a
-               ':' colon. So if you wanted a job to open /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
-               as the two working files, you would use
-               filename=/dev/sda:/dev/sdb. On Windows, disk devices are
-               accessed as \\.\PhysicalDrive0 for the first device,
-               \\.\PhysicalDrive1 for the second etc. Note: Windows and
-               FreeBSD prevent write access to areas of the disk containing
-               in-use data (e.g. filesystems).
+               a filename for each of them to override the default.
+               If the ioengine is file based, you can specify a number of
+               files by separating the names with a ':' colon. So if you
+               wanted a job to open /dev/sda and /dev/sdb as the two working
+               files, you would use filename=/dev/sda:/dev/sdb. On Windows,
+               disk devices are accessed as \\.\PhysicalDrive0 for the first
+               device, \\.\PhysicalDrive1 for the second etc. Note: Windows
+               and FreeBSD prevent write access to areas of the disk
+               containing in-use data (e.g. filesystems).

                If the wanted filename does need to include a colon, then
                escape that with a '\' character. For instance, if the filename
                is "/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", then you would use
                If the wanted filename does need to include a colon, then
                escape that with a '\' character. For instance, if the filename
                is "/dev/dsk/foo@3,0:c", then you would use