From: Tomohiro Kusumi <tkusumi@xxxxxxxxxx> Apply below commit to fio(1) man page. 82dbb8cb (HOWTO: add offset unit info for offset= option) Certain sections/options of the man page are not in sync with HOWTO, but this one was identical, thus the changes are the same as above. -- On 06/27/2017 08:56 AM, Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory) wrote: >> HOWTO | 8 +++++--- >> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > The manpage (fio.1) should be updated as well - that's more visible to users. Agree, I usually catch that. Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi <tkusumi@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fio.1 | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1 index 6a6ea1b..ac87c9d 100644 --- a/fio.1 +++ b/fio.1 @@ -911,11 +911,13 @@ If true, use buffered I/O. This is the opposite of the \fBdirect\fR parameter. Default: true. .TP .BI offset \fR=\fPint -Start I/O at the provided offset in the file, given as either a fixed size or a -percentage. If a percentage is given, the next \fBblockalign\fR-ed offset will -be used. Data before the given offset will not be touched. This effectively -caps the file size at (real_size - offset). Can be combined with \fBsize\fR to -constrain the start and end range of the I/O workload. +Start I/O at the provided offset in the file, given as either a fixed size in +bytes or a percentage. If a percentage is given, the next \fBblockalign\fR-ed +offset will be used. Data before the given offset will not be touched. This +effectively caps the file size at (real_size - offset). Can be combined with +\fBsize\fR to constrain the start and end range of the I/O workload. A percentage +can be specified by the percentage number plus 1 with preceding '-'. For example, +-1 is parsed as 0%, -10 is parsed as 9%, -101 is parsed as 100%. .TP .BI offset_increment \fR=\fPint If this is provided, then the real offset becomes the -- 2.9.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
