Mark do_verify and verify_fatal as booleans

[fio.git] / HOWTO

diff --git a/HOWTO b/HOWTO
index cdfe80aa9fc4f1908ecf504a9ba5dae1b7a11071..3bee1a2d70a42622f70f7a00c422246e4eaa2d6c 100644 (file)
--- a/HOWTO
+++ b/HOWTO
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ loops=int   Run the specified number of iterations of this job. Used
                to repeat the same workload a given number of times. Defaults
                to 1.
 
-do_verify=int  Run the verify phase after a write phase. Only makes sense if
+do_verify=bool Run the verify phase after a write phase. Only makes sense if
                verify is set. Defaults to 1.
 
 verify=str     If writing to a file, fio can verify the file contents
@@ -631,6 +631,11 @@ verify_pattern=int If set, fio will fill the io buffers with this
                width of the pattern, fio will fill 1/2/3/4 bytes of the
                buffer at the time. The verify_pattern cannot be larger than
                a 32-bit quantity.
+
+verify_fatal=bool      Normally fio will keep checking the entire contents
+               before quitting on a block verification failure. If this
+               option is set, fio will exit the job on the first observed
+               failure.
                
 stonewall      Wait for preceeding jobs in the job file to exit, before
                starting this one. Can be used to insert serialization