diff --git a/examples/nvme/fio_plugin/README.md b/examples/nvme/fio_plugin/README.md
index af9eca8f5..7e3dc6881 100644
--- a/examples/nvme/fio_plugin/README.md
+++ b/examples/nvme/fio_plugin/README.md
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ First, clone the fio source repository from http://github.com/axboe/fio
 
     git clone http://github.com/axboe/fio
 
-Then check out the fio 2.17 tag
+Then check out the fio 2.18 tag
 
-    cd fio && git checkout fio-2.17
+    cd fio && git checkout fio-2.18
 
 Finally, compile the code with
 
diff --git a/examples/nvme/fio_plugin/fio_plugin.c b/examples/nvme/fio_plugin/fio_plugin.c
index 8436a4e47..7a501428b 100644
--- a/examples/nvme/fio_plugin/fio_plugin.c
+++ b/examples/nvme/fio_plugin/fio_plugin.c
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ attach_cb(void *cb_ctx, const struct spdk_nvme_transport_id *trid,
 				continue;
 			}
 
-			f->filetype = FIO_TYPE_BD;
+			f->filetype = FIO_TYPE_BLOCK;
 			fio_file_set_size_known(f);
 
 			fio_ns->next = fio_ctrlr->ns_list;