Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:35:11 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Testing framework |
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Hi!
> For some time I had been working on this file system > test framework. > Now I have a implementation for the same and below is > the explanation. > Any comments are welcome. > > Introduction: > The testing tools and benchmarks available around do not > take into > account the repair and recovery aspects of file systems. > The test > framework described here focuses on repair and recovery > capabilities > of file systems. Since most file systems use 'fsck' to > recover from > file system inconsistencies, the test framework > characterizes file > systems based on outcomes of running 'fsck'.
Thanks for your work.
> Putting it all together: > The Corruption, Repair and Comparison phases could be > repeated a > number of times (each repetition is called an iteration) > before the > summary of that test run is prepared. > > TODO: > Account for files in the lost+found directory during the > comparison phase. > Support for other file systems (only ext2 is supported > currently)
Yes, please. ext2 does really well in fsck area, unfortunately some other filesystems (vfat, reiserfs) do not work that well.
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