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When zonemode=zbd option is not specified, random writes to zoned block devices fail because writes to sequential write required zones shall happen only at write pointers. Randomly chosen write addresses do not match with the write pointers, then fail. On such failures, fio prints out the message below and tell users how to avoid the failures: "fio: first I/O failed. If .* is a zoned block device, consider --zonemode=zbd". The test case 45 in t/zbd/test-zbd-support confirms the message is printed when the first random write command to a sequential write required zone fails. However, the random write can succeed very rarely since the randomly chosen write address can be same as the write pointer address. For example, a zoned block device with 1MB zone size with 4KB block size device can have the first random write at write pointer with ratio of 4KB/1MB = 1/256. This causes sporadic test case failures. Avoid the failures by two changes. Firstly, change the random write range from a zone to whole sequential write required zones to reduce the failure ratio. Secondly, repeat the test if the message is not printed by the accidental write success. As the test repeated, failure ratio is multiplied and the failure ratio becomes as small as it can be ignored. Signed-off-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Vincent Fu <[email protected]>
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