Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Aug 2002 02:44:00 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Testing of filesystems |
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Hans Reiser wrote: > > Tom Vier wrote: > > >On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:49:02AM +0200, Axel Siebenwirth wrote: > > > > > >>I wonder what a good way is to stress test my JFS filesystem. Is there a tool > >> > >> > ><snip> > > > >fsx.c came up a while ago on l-k. it's an old (but still very useful) fs > >stressor(sp) from neXT. i have a copy davej modded for linux. if you can't > >find it, i can send it to you. i haven't been brave enough to run it myself, > >on my alpha's reiserfs. 8) it found some hard to find bugs in ext2 that were > >lurking for years (iirc). > > > > > > > It found bugs in reiserfs and we fixed them.:)
fsx-linux is great. Caused me no end of grief in 2.5.13. Running it on small blocksize fs alongside really heavy memory pressure touches all sorts of corner cases.
I have a version which is tricked up to understand O_DIRECT in http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3-tools.tar.gz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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