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  Fixups for rbd luks support (2026-01-20 12:56:59 -0700)

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  Merge branch 'issue_1499' of https://github.com/gautammenghani/fio (2026-01-23 12:55:48 -0500)

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Gautam Menghani (1):
      man: Update the description for `verify_only` explaining phantom writes

Vincent Fu (1):
      Merge branch 'issue_1499' of https://github.com/gautammenghani/fio

 HOWTO.rst | 3 ++-
 fio.1     | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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Diff of recent changes:

diff --git a/HOWTO.rst b/HOWTO.rst
index fb607aa4..d566c18e 100644
--- a/HOWTO.rst
+++ b/HOWTO.rst
@@ -3945,7 +3945,8 @@ Verification
 	for workloads that write data, and does not support workloads with the
 	:option:`time_based` option set. :option:`verify_write_sequence` and
 	:option:`verify_header_seed` will be disabled in this mode, unless they are
-	explicitly enabled.
+	explicitly enabled. The writes reported in the output when this option is
+	specified are phantom writes, since no writes are actually issued.
 
 .. option:: do_verify=bool
 
diff --git a/fio.1 b/fio.1
index 071ad0e9..4ecfc658 100644
--- a/fio.1
+++ b/fio.1
@@ -3654,7 +3654,8 @@ times at a later date without overwriting it. This option makes sense only
 for workloads that write data, and does not support workloads with the
 \fBtime_based\fR option set. Options \fBverify_write_sequence\fR and
 \fBverify_header_seed\fR will be disabled in this mode, unless they are
-explicitly enabled.
+explicitly enabled. The writes reported in the output when this option is
+specified are phantom writes, since no writes are actually issued.
 .TP
 .BI do_verify \fR=\fPbool
 Run the verify phase after a write phase. Only valid if \fBverify\fR is