Document the verify behaviour wrt read and write workloads
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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This option can be used for repeated burn-in tests of a
system to make sure that the written data is also
- correctly read back.
+ correctly read back. If the data direction given is
+ a read or random read, fio will assume that it should
+ verify a previously written file. If the data direction
+ includes any form of write, the verify will be of the
+ newly written data.
verifysort=bool If set, fio will sort written verify blocks when it deems
it faster to read them back in a sorted manner. This is