(Please CC me in the reply, I'm not subscribed) Hi, I've justed observed another type of verification failure, using the following configuration: -------------------- [global] ioengine=libaio iodepth=30 rw=randwrite bsrange=512-128k direct=1 verify=sha512 verify_async=8 [/dev/sda2] -------------------- The output is: ------------------------- wizeman@cfslap:~/src/fio$ sudo ./fio verify.conf /dev/sda2: (g=0): rw=randwrite, bs=512-128K/512-128K, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=30 Starting 1 process Bad verify header 11a201ef at 7151022087K /s] [0/172 iops] [eta 03m:11s] fio: pid=30053, err=84/file:verify.c:840, func=async_verify, error=Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character Bad verify header 713f2224 at 60533760 Bad verify header 7df21ab6 at 44630528 Bad verify header 1124297c at 50690048 Bad verify header 6fc5d15f at 102814208 Bad verify header 63469875 at 139774464 Bad verify header 1743d35f at 164766720 Bad verify header 29cbf9d7 at 173868544 ... ------------------------- This happens on both RHEL5.4 and Ubuntu 9.10. fio was compiled from source from the latest git commit. Any ideas of what might be wrong? 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