On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 03:47:38PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 10/15/12 9:34 AM, Anshul Kundra wrote: > > Suppose in XFS file system I want to corrupt a inode of my choice, > > will it be possible using xfs_db > > > > Xfs_db blockget < inode number > blocktrash < seed value and type of > > block > > > > > In the manuals it is written that it takes a random inodes for the > > corruption which it does in actual practice, so can I use any > > specific command to corrupt the inode (131 ) > > As the manual says, blocktrash trashes random metadata blocks (possibly > of specified type). > > You can, however, write whatever you want into various fields of > inode 131 via xfs_db, there's just no built-in random method to > do that. A better question might be: "why do you want to corrupt a specific inode"? To test repair, or online detection, or something else? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
