From 0aae4ce7dbc93fe5770b25c76f5b6242ce398b7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jens Axboe Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:55:08 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Update file_append documentation Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe --- HOWTO | 3 ++- fio.1 | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO index 7e77c403..47eff96a 100644 --- a/HOWTO +++ b/HOWTO @@ -438,7 +438,8 @@ filesize=int Individual file sizes. May be a range, in which case fio file_append=bool Perform IO after the end of the file. Normally fio will operate within the size of a file. If this option is set, then fio will append to the file instead. This has identical - behavior to setting offset to the size of a file. + behavior to setting offset to the size of a file. This option + is ignored on non-regular files. fill_device=bool fill_fs=bool Sets size to something really large and waits for ENOSPC (no diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1 index fee5427d..91f96e02 100644 --- a/fio.1 +++ b/fio.1 @@ -390,7 +390,7 @@ same size. Perform IO after the end of the file. Normally fio will operate within the size of a file. If this option is set, then fio will append to the file instead. This has identical behavior to setting \fRoffset\fP to the size -of a file. +of a file. This option is ignored on non-regular files. .TP .BI blocksize \fR=\fPint[,int] "\fR,\fB bs" \fR=\fPint[,int] Block size for I/O units. Default: 4k. Values for reads, writes, and trims -- 2.25.1