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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html