On Monday 19 May 2008, Jan Kara wrote: > > On Monday 19 May 2008, Chris Mason wrote: > > > Here's a test workload that corrupts ext3 50% of the time on power fail > > > testing for me. The machine in this test is my poor dell desktop > > > (3ghz, dual core, 2GB of ram), and the power controller is me walking > > > over and ripping the plug out the back. > > > > Here's a new version that still gets about corruptions 50% of the time, > > but does it with fewer files by using longer file names (240 chars > > instead of 160 chars). > > > > I tested this one with a larger FS (40GB instead of 2GB) and larger log > > (128MB instead of 32MB). barrier-test -s 32 -p 1500 was still able to > > get a 50% corruption rate on the larger FS. > > Hmm, this is worse than I'd have expected :( If it is that bad, I > think we should really enable them by default... I can give your script > a try on my test machine when I get back (which is next week). That would be great, I'd like to confirm that my machine isn't the only one on the planet so easily broken ;) I was also able to trigger corruptions on XFS (one run out of two), so it is unlikely I'm seeing bugs in the ext3 replay or logging code. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
