From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: "xan.peng" <xanpeng@gmail.com>
Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why not abort when posix_fallocate() failed?
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 08:43:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130813144311.GI25668@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+8ZFnhapBuTo0U9Loyg=zrGHxf2GGJN2=LTu2Sw0oJWKHNicA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Aug 12 2013, xan.peng wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm recently reading fio source code and running it for test purpose.
> A case bothered me which is fio keep going after posix_fallocate()
> failed, I'm wondering why, shouldn't it abort immediately?
Fio treats it as advisory, like fadvise. Back in the day, fallocate
would often not be available. So it would be hard to treat it as a full
error.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-13 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-12 7:23 Why not abort when posix_fallocate() failed? xan.peng
2013-08-13 14:43 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2013-08-14 1:48 ` xan.peng
2013-08-16 5:38 ` FIO-2.1.2 Windows Binaries Availability Ritchie Babaylan
2013-08-16 5:44 ` Encountered Mix Access R/W Problem Ritchie Babaylan
2013-08-19 1:24 ` xan.peng
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