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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Radha Ramachandran <radha@google.com>
Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: verify_pattern size restriction
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:36:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091021063604.GL10727@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66dfd3fe0910201827y60bf72c5rcf3375e08cd36e6@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 20 2009, Radha Ramachandran wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a reason why there is a 32 bit size restriction on the
> verify_pattern parameter.
> I have the fio code changes to handle verify_pattern of size <= 512
> bytes, Iam still testing it. But wanted to know if there was any
> special reason for the restriction before I sent the patch out.

Go for it, it's not a design decision :-). So I'll happily take patches
to improve and extend it. Thanks!

-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-21  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-21  1:27 verify_pattern size restriction Radha Ramachandran
2009-10-21  6:36 ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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