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 		for doing these time calls will be excluded from other
 		uses. Fio will manually clear it from the CPU mask of other
 		jobs.
+continue_on_error=bool	Normally fio will exit the job on the first observed
+		failure. If this option is set, fio will continue the job when
+		there is a 'non-fatal error' (EIO or EILSEQ) until the runtime
+		is exceeded or the I/O size specified is completed. If this
+		option is used, there are two more stats that are appended,
+		the total error count and the first error. The error field
+		given in the stats is the first error that was hit during the
+		run.
 
 
 6.0 Interpreting the output