Sitsofe Wheeler

@Mart-Bogdan that is a complicated and loaded question. The Linux kernel does support async I/O via `libaio`/`KAIO` (hence the reason for thi repo :-) but there is a very [long...

For others who may land here due to SDelete 2.00 being slow and are wondering where the checksum was recorded for the 1.6.1 version so they can manually verify their...

Note: If your disk is backed by supported "thin" storage (e.g. a Hyper-V dynamic sized VHDX) then [Optimize-Volume](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/storage/optimize-volume?view=win10-ps) can do a Re-Trim which will be far more efficient at quickly...

@StefanScherer sadly I doubt that you can make Optimize-Volume trim everywhere - even on Hyper-V you only get it on dynamic disks and not fixed size ones. You need the...

@Stanback you may also be interested in vfs_fruit in Samba 4.8 - https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.8.0.html .

@mrnuke this sounds like a duplicate of issue #432 - is that the case?

@mrnuke my bad. Do you get a different result if you put all your remote settings into a job file?

I have a faint memory of hitting this when I first started using fio years ago but for some reason I made no record of it. I have a feeling...

Couldn't you get close to this using sequential I/O with holes when the block size is fixed e.g. rw=read:4K ?

@jo-ale35 : which version of fio are you on and does your problem change if you use the git master version of fio?