Hi all, I'm recently reading fio source code and running it for test purpose. A case bothered me which is fio keep going after posix_fallocate() failed, I'm wondering why, shouldn't it abort immediately? Information may be useful followed: ==part of the output== fio: set debug option file libaio.dat: (g=0): rw=randrw, bs=8K-8K/8K-8K/8K-8K, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=16 libaio.dat: Laying out IO file(s) (1 file(s) / 2048MB) fio: posix_fallocate fails: No space left on device fio: ENOSPC on laying out file, stopping fio: io_u error on file /mnt/nfs/libaio.dat.1.0: No space left on device write offset=1398325248, buflen=8192 fio: io_u error on file /mnt/nfs/libaio.dat.1.0: No space left on device write offset=1994014720, buflen=8192 fio: pid=7152, err=28/file:io_u.c:1377, func=io_u error, error=No space left on device ==reproduce== dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1gdisk bs=1M count=1024 losetup /dev/loop0 /tmp/1gdisk mkfs.ext4 /dev/loop0 mount /dev/loop0 /mnt/loopfs cat aio-bench # simplified here // [global] ioengine=libaio,direct=1,rw=randrw,bs=8k,directory=/mnt/loopfs,time_based,runtime=10 // [libaio.dat] size=2g,iodepth=16 fio aio-bench -- - Thanks. - xan.peng -- 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