On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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? > > Fio treats it as advisory, like fadvise. Back in the day, fallocate > would often not be available. So it would be hard to treat it as a full > error. Thanks. This sounds very reasonable to me. -- - 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
