From: Sitsofe Wheeler Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 09:08:14 +0000 (+0000) Subject: doc: IO -> I/O, sync filecreate documentation X-Git-Tag: fio-3.2~20^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://git.kernel.dk/?p=fio.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=b71968b18ee9d3a5b965da1596b838ba91b444c6 doc: IO -> I/O, sync filecreate documentation Change IO -> I/O and copy the filecreate description from the HOWTO to the man page. Signed-off-by: Sitsofe Wheeler --- diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO index e7142c57..72f972c7 100644 --- a/HOWTO +++ b/HOWTO @@ -1815,9 +1815,9 @@ I/O engine details of writing an external I/O engine. **filecreate** - Simply create the files and do no IO to them. You still need to + Simply create the files and do no I/O to them. You still need to set `filesize` so that all the accounting still occurs, but no - actual IO will be done other than creating the file. + actual I/O will be done other than creating the file. I/O engine specific parameters ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -2888,7 +2888,7 @@ Measurements and reporting .. option:: lat_percentiles=bool - Enable the reporting of percentiles of IO latencies. This is similar + Enable the reporting of percentiles of I/O latencies. This is similar to :option:`clat_percentiles`, except that this includes the submission latency. This option is mutually exclusive with :option:`clat_percentiles`. diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1 index 96d8f114..787b596c 100644 --- a/fio.1 +++ b/fio.1 @@ -1593,8 +1593,9 @@ absolute or relative. See `engines/skeleton_external.c' in the fio source for details of writing an external I/O engine. .TP .B filecreate -Create empty files only. \fBfilesize\fR still needs to be specified so that fio -will run and grab latency results, but no IO will actually be done on the files. +Simply create the files and do no I/O to them. You still need to set +\fBfilesize\fR so that all the accounting still occurs, but no actual I/O will be +done other than creating the file. .SS "I/O engine specific parameters" In addition, there are some parameters which are only valid when a specific \fBioengine\fR is in use. These are used identically to normal parameters, @@ -2567,7 +2568,7 @@ Enable the reporting of percentiles of completion latencies. This option is mutually exclusive with \fBlat_percentiles\fR. .TP .BI lat_percentiles \fR=\fPbool -Enable the reporting of percentiles of IO latencies. This is similar to +Enable the reporting of percentiles of I/O latencies. This is similar to \fBclat_percentiles\fR, except that this includes the submission latency. This option is mutually exclusive with \fBclat_percentiles\fR. .TP