Messages in this thread | | | Subject | "flawd" debugging ramdisk module | From | (Stephen C. Tweedie) | Date | 31 May 1997 23:14:55 +0100 |
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Hi all,
The .tar.gz below contains a new device driver module for 2.0.30, "flawd". flawd just acts as a very simple ramdisk. It allocates space statically in advance, and maintains a bad sector bitmap over the whole device to inject IO errors on demand. It can be used to test the kernel's ability to cope with errors on block devices.
To specify the size of the ramdisks (up to four can be created), specify the size parameter on the insmod command line:
insmod flawd.o # Default: one 1024K flawdisk insmod flawd.o size=2048 # One 2048K flawdisk or insmod flawd.o size=1024,1024 # Two 1024K flawdisks
The major number of the flawdisk devices is 63, so you can create the block device files with
mknod /dev/flawd0 b 63 0 mknod /dev/flawd1 b 63 1 mknod /dev/flawd2 b 63 2 mknod /dev/flawd3 b 63 3
Once created, you can just use them as any other block device. To start injecting errors, run the supplied flawctl program, usage:
flawctl /dev/flawd? [-[sc] [start [count]] ...] ...
Specify the start and count arguments in sectors, and use -s and -c to determine whether to set or clear the bad sector flags on subsequent ranges. The count argument defaults to one if omitted.
For example,
./flawctl /dev/flawd0 -s 10 # Mark sector 10 as bad ./flawctl /dev/flawd0 -s 20 10 # Mark sectors 20--29 as bad ./flawctl /dev/flawd0 -c 0 10 100 10 # Mark sectors 0--9, 100--109 as good
The flawctl program only affects subsequent IO requests to the block device: it does not affect the status of any blocks already cached by the buffer cache.
I've been using flawd to test out ext2fs's error recovery code. Who knows, somebody else might find it useful too.
Cheers, Stephen.
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