Allow verify w/norandommap and bsrange
Only intact blocks are verified; partially-overwritten blocks
are ignored
Signed-off-by: Justin Eno <jeno@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index 8da5527..0f7909d 100644
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -919,10 +919,10 @@
random IO. If this option is given, fio will just get a
new random offset without looking at past io history. This
means that some blocks may not be read or written, and that
- some blocks may be read/written more than once. This option
- is mutually exclusive with verify= if and only if multiple
- blocksizes (via bsrange=) are used, since fio only tracks
- complete rewrites of blocks.
+ some blocks may be read/written more than once. If this option
+ is used with verify= and multiple blocksizes (via bsrange=),
+ only intact blocks are verified, i.e., partially-overwritten
+ blocks are ignored.
softrandommap=bool See norandommap. If fio runs with the random block map
enabled and it fails to allocate the map, if this option is