From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:19:51 +0200 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [patch] fs: improved handling of page and buffer IO errors Message-ID: <20081022201951.GS12825@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20081021112137.GB12329@wotan.suse.de> <87mygxexev.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20081022103112.GA27862@wotan.suse.de> <20081022184624.GB31902@cynthia.pants.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081022184624.GB31902@cynthia.pants.nu> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Brad Boyer Cc: Nick Piggin , Andi Kleen , Andrew Morton , Linux Memory Management List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Something that might be useful for this kind of testing is a block > device that is just a map onto a real block device but allows the > user to configure it to generate various errors. If we could set it Both MD and DM have such injectors. That's not the problem. The problem is the lack of a standard test suite that sets it all up and exercises the relevant paths in the VM and FS. -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org