.. option:: --readonly
- Turn on safety read-only checks, preventing writes. The ``--readonly``
- option is an extra safety guard to prevent users from accidentally starting
- a write workload when that is not desired. Fio will only write if
- `rw=write/randwrite/rw/randrw` is given. This extra safety net can be used
- as an extra precaution as ``--readonly`` will also enable a write check in
- the I/O engine core to prevent writes due to unknown user space bug(s).
+ Turn on safety read-only checks, preventing writes and trims. The
+ ``--readonly`` option is an extra safety guard to prevent users from
+ accidentally starting a write or trim workload when that is not desired.
+ Fio will only modify the device under test if
+ `rw=write/randwrite/rw/randrw/trim/randtrim/trimwrite` is given. This
+ safety net can be used as an extra precaution.
.. option:: --eta=when
and that some blocks may be read/written more than once. If this option is
used with :option:`verify` and multiple blocksizes (via :option:`bsrange`),
only intact blocks are verified, i.e., partially-overwritten blocks are
- ignored.
+ ignored. With an async I/O engine and an I/O depth > 1, it is possible for
+ the same block to be overwritten, which can cause verification errors. Either
+ do not use norandommap in this case, or also use the lfsr random generator.
.. option:: softrandommap=bool
previously written file. If the data direction includes any form of write,
the verify will be of the newly written data.
+ To avoid false verification errors, do not use the norandommap option when
+ verifying data with async I/O engines and I/O depths > 1. Or use the
+ norandommap and the lfsr random generator together to avoid writing to the
+ same offset with muliple outstanding I/Os.
+
.. option:: verify_offset=int
Swap the verification header with data somewhere else in the block before