Ok, this appears to be a bug in the SHA256 function after all: sha256: verify failed at 0/1310720K/23461K /s] [0/179 iops] [eta 00m:46s] 4234ee764aba733fd973ca3f52ab654e9b2611287eecd75043b45806e725ea6d3817f1342a03bb6835129936feb6d4738e7ca76195c3106055d45d233867777957496c386cbdfd4bcbaab173d391f168df5d3e04f4821f67af2dc17da4a5ff1f56b2e85abdac00677b61470775117408c0b34116b505e46992f21f29d0302132 4234ee764aba733fd973ca3f52ab654e9b2611287eecd75043b45806e725ea6d3817f1342a03bb6835129936feb6d4738e7ca76195c3106055d45d2338677779e41d69b71069690d300255b680aa84b786c769b7ed9380b7000000000000000000000000f0fd7db7020055b6000285b7c59380b7b4f77db7f4df85b780c968b7 sha256: verify failed at 131072/131072 23d88d7345fae206536dc33adfb9be1a4040c654ee68e86121a3380a08884175e1be76634d8fdf02b7680f30f39183707a0e6a589c9fd928ec06c176b2ee29485722d229075c0c1965ae097e00b05a39a4de530104a8621fada832696571b4711f139a3f80cb95431ee6e7590a500927cd701e116c85843219f7a32e79bbaa7e 23d88d7345fae206536dc33adfb9be1a4040c654ee68e86121a3380a08884175e1be76634d8fdf02b7680f30f39183707a0e6a589c9fd928ec06c176b2ee294800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 It works fine with SHA512. Cheers, Ricardo On Qui, 2010-02-18 at 01:20 +0000, Ricardo M. Correia wrote: > (Please CC me in the reply, I'm not subscribed) > > Hi, > > I've been observing verification failures with the following > configuration file: > > ----------- > [global] > ioengine=libaio > iodepth=30 > rw=randrw > bs=512-128k > direct=1 > rwmixcycle=40 > verify=sha256 > verify_async=8 > > [/dev/sda2] > -------------------- > > This happens on both RHEL5.4 and Ubuntu 9.10. > > I was observing that with fio-1.36, but I just tried cloning fio from > the git repo and I'm experiencing the same problem. > > Any ideas of what might be wrong? > > I found this email of a few months ago: > http://www.spinics.net/lists/fio/msg00205.html > > And I just verified that this patch is in my just-cloned git tree. > > Also, an unrelated issue is that fio complains about 'rwmixcycle' being > deprecated but the man page doesn't specify what parameter I should be > using instead. > > Thanks in advance, > Ricardo > -- 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