From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Radha Ramachandran <radha@google.com>
Cc: fio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Disabling verify when norandommap is given
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:47:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090219074712.GD30821@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66dfd3fe0902181512o5a88da43waaf09834bd6d37ac@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Feb 18 2009, Radha Ramachandran wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a reason why there is a hard rule to disable verify when
> norandommap option is also set?
Without a map of the blocks that have been written already, you might
overwrite full or partial blocks before you are done. That would cause
verify to fail. See the 'norandommap' explanation in the HOWTO as well.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-19 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-18 23:12 Disabling verify when norandommap is given Radha Ramachandran
2009-02-19 7:47 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2009-02-19 18:10 ` Radha Ramachandran
2009-02-19 18:26 ` Jens Axboe
2009-02-19 19:56 ` Radha Ramachandran
2009-02-19 20:12 ` Jens Axboe
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