Hi, Is the error below is expected one for the read operation? I am not getting any error for the write operation. root@ertino-ThinkPad-T431s:/home/ertino--verify crc32c xspp: (g=0): rw=randread, bs=(R) 4096B-4096B, (W) 4096B-4096B, (T) 4096B-4096B, ioengine=psync, iodepth=1 fio-3.12-17-g0fcbc0 Starting 1 process xspp: Laying out IO file (1 file / 10MiB) verify: bad magic header 1950, wanted acca at file xspp.0.0 offset 630784, length 4096 (requested block: offset=630784, length=4096) fio: pid=32055, err=84/file:io_u.c:2033, func=io_u_sync_complete, error=Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character xspp: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err=84 (file:io_u.c:2033, func=io_u_sync_complete, error=Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character): pid=32055: Tue Dec 11 23:09:30 2018 read: IOPS=500, BW=2000KiB/s (2048kB/s)(4096B/2msec) clat (nsec): min=641354, max=641354, avg=641354.00, stdev= 0.00 lat (nsec): min=645363, max=645363, avg=645363.00, stdev= 0.00 clat percentiles (usec): | 1.00th=[ 644], 5.00th=[ 644], 10.00th=[ 644], 20.00th=[ 644], | 30.00th=[ 644], 40.00th=[ 644], 50.00th=[ 644], 60.00th=[ 644], | 70.00th=[ 644], 80.00th=[ 644], 90.00th=[ 644], 95.00th=[ 644], | 99.00th=[ 644], 99.50th=[ 644], 99.90th=[ 644], 99.95th=[ 644], | 99.99th=[ 644] lat (usec) : 750=100.00% cpu : usr=0.00%, sys=0.00%, ctx=3, majf=0, minf=20 IO depths : 1=100.0%, 2=0.0%, 4=0.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, >=64=0.0% submit : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% complete : 0=0.0%, 4=100.0%, 8=0.0%, 16=0.0%, 32=0.0%, 64=0.0%, >=64=0.0% issued rwts: total=1,0,0,0 short=0,0,0,0 dropped=0,0,0,0 latency : target=0, window=0, percentile=100.00%, depth=1 Run status group 0 (all jobs): READ: bw=2000KiB/s (2048kB/s), 2000KiB/s-2000KiB/s (2048kB/s-2048kB/s), io=4096B (4096B), run=2-2msec Disk stats (read/write): sda: ios=0/0, merge=0/0, ticks=0/0, in_queue=0, util=0.00% Thanks and Regards, Mohan