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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.

Pavel
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