Re: Disabling verify when norandommap is given

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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

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