On 14 August 2015 at 20:22, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/14/2015 01:21 PM, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: >> >> On 14 August 2015 at 20:17, Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Right, I suspected that might have been the case. If the header isn't >>> valid, >>> then fio doesn't dump any contents. One could argue that it would be >>> cleaner >> >> >> What do you think it would take to dump a block's worth of data when >> encountering a header error during a verify? > > > Without a valid header, we can't re-generate the data. That's why it > currently doesn't dump the expected contents if the header verification > fails. I see. Even fixed patterns would be a pain unless they have an entirely separate code path. How about just dumping whatever you received even if it was just a header's worth? -- Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- 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
