How to simulate journal corruption

[crow al]

Hi, Olaf & Eric

Thanks for your kindly reply. I will try your suggestions & if there is any interesting findings, I will let your know

Thanks & Regards.
Lv Wentao.





> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:44:03 -0500
> From: sandeen at sandeen.net
> To: al-john at hotmail.com
> CC: xfs at oss.sgi.com
> Subject: Re: How to simulate journal corruption
> 
> crow al wrote:
> > Hi, there
> > 
> > I'm a QA engineer from Cisco. I'm working on a test case concerning XFS
> > journal playback failure, which needs to manually inject error to XFS.
> > 
> > I did some google work but get no luck. Then I think maybe XFA-QA could
> > give me some advice. That why I come to here.
> > 
> > Is there anyone could tell me how to inject error into XFS or is there
> > any tool could be used?
> > 
> > Wish for your response.
> > 
> > Thanks & Regards.
> > Lv Wentao.
> 
> test 044 in xfstests runs something called "loggen" which will generate
> log traffic to be replayed on mount, if I'm reading it right.  Of course
> that's an uncorrupted log ...
> 
> There is another tool called "fsfuzzer" which writes random junk over a
> filesystem.  You could probably combine the two tools to create valid
> logs to replay, and then write varying degrees of junk on top with
> fsfuzzer, and try to replay the result.
> 
> You could probably even use fsfuzzer "stock" and just restrict the
> fuzzing to the log portion of the filesystem.
> 
> I'm not sure what kinds of errors you are trying to catch - oopses,
> hangs, improperly replaying a corrupted log, etc - but it sounds well
> worth doing.  FWIW when I used fsfuzzer, it often ran into problems in
> the log, so I imagine you'll uncover some interesting things; if you do,
> please share.  :)
> 
> -Eric

_________________________________________________________________
With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos.
http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/windows/windowslive/products/photo-gallery-edit.aspx
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://oss.sgi.com/pipermail/xfs/attachments/20090714/0e2a2001/attachment.htm>