[PATCH] Added blkrawverify utility

[blktrace.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index b71dae0afcf68ca0e15ae8006a203ab28bd7f741..5f79e366c3b67d8afde9fcf16f471c6b080b2227 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -126,6 +126,14 @@ $ verify_blkparse filename
        the events in the file are correctly time ordered. If an entry
        is found that isn't ordered, it's dumped to stdout.
 
+$ blkrawverify <dev> [<dev>...]
+
+       The blkrawverify utility can be used to verify data retrieved
+       via blktrace. It will check for valid event formats, forward
+       progressing sequence numbers and time stamps, also does reasonable
+       checks for other potential issues within invidividual events.
+
+       Errors found will be tracked in <dev>.verify.out.
 
 If you want to do live tracing, you can pipe the data between blktrace
 and blkparse:
@@ -142,7 +150,6 @@ the network with eg netcat:
 Which will send the traces from tracehost to parsehost over the network on
 the defined port number.
 
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