Markus Schaber wrote: > Hi, Scott & all, > > Scott Lamb wrote: > > > I don't know the answer to this question, but have you seen this tool? > > > > http://brad.livejournal.com/2116715.html > > We had a simpler tool inhouse, which wrote a file byte-for-byte, and > called fsync() after every byte. > > If the number of fsyncs/min is higher than your rotations per minute > value of your disks, they must be lying. > > It does not find as much liers as the script above, but it is less Why does it find fewer liers? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > intrusive (can be ran on every low-io machine without crashing it), and > it found some liers in-house (some notebook disks, one external > USB/FireWire to IDE case, and an older linux cryptoloop implementations, > IIRC). > > If you're interested, I can dig for the C source... > > HTH, > Markus > > > > > -- > Markus Schaber | Logical Tracking&Tracing International AG > Dipl. Inf. | Software Development GIS > > Fight against software patents in EU! www.ffii.org www.nosoftwarepatents.org > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend > -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
