doc: minor documentation changes

- Change some parameter types to be time in the HOWTO.
- Put a space before the end of sentence but after links in the README.
- Update the Red Hat fio package information.

Signed-off-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>

diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index d63fff7c97d02271091f87f8071bb6ffd5176a4a..765924d7716ab3a222a8fd75753ee159ef64adb3 100644 (file)
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ Time related parameters
        even if the file(s) are completely read or written. It will simply loop over
        the same workload as many times as the :option:`runtime` allows.
 
-.. option:: startdelay=irange
+.. option:: startdelay=irange(time)
 
        Delay start of job for the specified number of seconds. Supports all time
        suffixes to allow specification of hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds
@@ -1945,13 +1945,13 @@ I/O depth
 I/O rate
 ~~~~~~~~
 
-.. option:: thinktime=int
+.. option:: thinktime=time
 
        Stall the job x microseconds after an I/O has completed before issuing the
        next. May be used to simulate processing being done by an application. See
        :option:`thinktime_blocks` and :option:`thinktime_spin`.
 
-.. option:: thinktime_spin=int
+.. option:: thinktime_spin=time
 
        Only valid if :option:`thinktime` is set - pretend to spend CPU time doing
        something with the data received, before falling back to sleeping for the
@@ -2007,14 +2007,14 @@ I/O rate
 I/O latency
 ~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-.. option:: latency_target=int
+.. option:: latency_target=time
 
        If set, fio will attempt to find the max performance point that the given
        workload will run at while maintaining a latency below this target. The
        values is given in microseconds.  See :option:`latency_window` and
        :option:`latency_percentile`.
 
-.. option:: latency_window=int
+.. option:: latency_window=time
 
        Used with :option:`latency_target` to specify the sample window that the job
        is run at varying queue depths to test the performance. The value is given
@@ -2027,7 +2027,7 @@ I/O latency
        defaults to 100.0, meaning that all IOs must be equal or below to the value
        set by :option:`latency_target`.
 
-.. option:: max_latency=int
+.. option:: max_latency=time
 
        If set, fio will exit the job if it exceeds this maximum latency. It will
        exit with an ETIME error.

diff --git a/README b/README
index 8f5385ef6fe5102db97275cf4c641bcdf852a9b6..9493c2a5caf9af03f655866c40163c6a21bd598e 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -92,16 +92,17 @@ Binary packages
 
 Debian:
        Starting with Debian "Squeeze", fio packages are part of the official
-       Debian repository. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=fio.
+       Debian repository. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=fio .
 
 Ubuntu:
        Starting with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (aka "Lucid Lynx"), fio packages are part
        of the Ubuntu "universe" repository.
-       http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=fio.
+       http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=fio .
 
-Red Hat, CentOS & Co:
-       Dag Wieërs has RPMs for Red Hat related distros, find them here:
-       http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/fio/.
+Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS & Co:
+       Starting with Fedora 9/Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 4, fio
+       packages are part of the Fedora/EPEL repositories.
+       https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/fio/ .
 
 Mandriva:
        Mandriva has integrated fio into their package repository, so installing