From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net>,
JFS-Discussion <jfs-discussion@www-124.southbury.usf.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Testing of filesystems
Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 02:44:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D5631E0.200E37D4@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D562498.9020901@namesys.com>
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
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-11 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-30 9:49 Axel Siebenwirth
2002-07-30 12:07 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-30 12:15 ` Alex Riesen
2002-07-30 15:36 ` Paul Larson
2002-07-30 12:22 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2002-07-30 12:30 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-07-30 17:52 ` Cliff White
2002-08-11 2:50 ` Tom Vier
2002-08-11 8:47 ` Hans Reiser
2002-08-11 9:44 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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