Re: error injection

[NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>]

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On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:59:49 -0700 Jojy Varghese <jojy.varghese@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Neil. I tried setting my sda7 partition to generate write
> errors every 40 bytes(writing 1 byte at a time). I did :

md doesn't see byte writes.  It sees sectors or more - usually whole pages or
groups of pages.

> 
> 1. Create a array with:
> mdadm -C /dev/md/me0 -l faulty -n1 /dev/sda7

-C will write a superblock to /dev/sda7 which you don't really want.  It
doesn't hurt, but I always used -B (--build) to avoid any metadata.

> 
> After this step I can see /dev/md127 and when i do a mdadm -D /dev/md127, i get:
> 
> /dev/md127:
>         Version : 1.2
>   Creation Time : Wed Sep 28 17:35:50 2011
>      Raid Level : faulty
>      Array Size : 969410424 (924.50 GiB 992.68 GB)
>    Raid Devices : 1
>   Total Devices : 1
>     Persistence : Superblock is persistent
> 
>     Update Time : Wed Sep 28 17:35:50 2011
>           State : clean
>  Active Devices : 1
> Working Devices : 1
>  Failed Devices : 0
>   Spare Devices : 0
> 
>            Name : eng-dev16.lab.local:me0  (local to host eng-dev16.lab.local)
>            UUID : 96f4be10:312f9574:f40107aa:d9f278ba
>          Events : 0
> 
>     Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
>        0       8        7        0      active sync   /dev/sda7
> 
> 
> 2. Set write fault level with:
> 
> mdadm -G /dev/md/me0 --layout=wp40
> 
> 
> 
>   After this when i write > 40 bytes into /dev/md127, i dont get any
> I/O errors. I am sure i am doing something wrong here.

When you write to /dev/md127 it will just go into the page cache and
eventually be flushed to the device in one write.
Use O_DIRECT or O_SYNC and it will be flushed out more quickly, but always
write at least 512  bytes at a time.

NeilBrown



> 
> 
> Any help is much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> Jojy

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