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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@gmail.com>
Cc: fio <fio@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: server mode and verify_dump
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 13:22:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55CE4001.8090705@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALjAwxhbjE4xTZ5jA_m-0spFTtvwJb_bNZz7m7cPRcCXLY1wNA@mail.gmail.com>

On 08/14/2015 01:21 PM, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> On 14 August 2015 at 20:17, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> wrote:
>> Right, I suspected that might have been the case. If the header isn't valid,
>> then fio doesn't dump any contents. One could argue that it would be cleaner
>
> What do you think it would take to dump a block's worth of data when
> encountering a header error during a verify?

Without a valid header, we can't re-generate the data. That's why it 
currently doesn't dump the expected contents if the header verification 
fails.

-- 
Jens Axboe



  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-14 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-03 21:12 server mode and verify_dump Sitsofe Wheeler
2015-08-14 15:47 ` Jens Axboe
2015-08-14 15:58   ` Jens Axboe
2015-08-14 19:11     ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2015-08-14 19:17       ` Jens Axboe
2015-08-14 19:21         ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2015-08-14 19:22           ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2015-08-14 19:41             ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2015-08-14 19:50               ` Jens Axboe

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