Re: [PATCH 00/21] verify fixes and a new test suite

[Vincent Fu <vincentfu@gmail.com>]

On 3/5/25 7:36 AM, Shinichiro Kawasaki wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2025 / 11:54, Vincent Fu wrote:
>> On 2/27/25 5:47 AM, Ankit Kumar wrote:
>>> This series fixes few issues with verify, and introduces a new test
>>> suite.
>>>
>>> Inital few patches add the missing client/server support for
>>> verify_write_sequence. This also changes its behavior such that if
>>> verify_write_sequence is explicitly enabled fio will not disable it
>>> under any circumstance.
>>>
>>> Numerous header seed mismatch issues have been reported. This series
>>> introduces a new option verify_header_seed which is similar to
>>> verify_write_sequence, which allow users to disable any header seed
>>> verification. For certain workloads which used to overwrite header seed
>>> before verification, we simply disable the header seed checks now. This
>>> now includes a few more scenarios such as verify_only mode, read only
>>> workloads and workloads with norandommap, where the header seed match is
>>> not guaranteed.
>>>
>>> Few more fixes related to verify_offset, workloads that have offset
>>> modifiers, verification issue when multiple files are specified, are part
>>> of this series.
>>>
>>> Lastly this includes robust test suite for verify.
>>> CI run result: https://github.com/vincentkfu/fio/actions/runs/13552248490
>>>
>>> Note: The fixes in this series doesn't cover experimental_verify and any
>>> workload with variable block sizes.
>>>
>>
>> I have worked closely with Ankit on these patches and hope others can take a
>> look to point out anything we may have missed.
> 
> Hi Ankit, Vincent, thanks for the work and the heads up.
> 
> I ran t/zbd/run-tests-against-nullb with this series, and observed no failure.
> So it looks good from zonemode=zbd testing point of view.
> 
> I took a glance on the changes and did not find anything wrong. It's ok for me
> to apply the changes.

I have applied the patches with small changes to the test script to skip 
a flaky test on macOS and fix a test that did not run reliably on Windows.

Shinichiro, thank you for testing and taking a look at the patches.

Vincent