> 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). Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SuSE CR Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
