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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Kalpak Shah <kalpak@clusterfs.com>,
	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	TheodoreTso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Random corruption test for e2fsck
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:16:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070712221624.GA5880@schatzie.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070712110923.GA500@one.firstfloor.org>

On Jul 12, 2007  13:09 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > "dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1k ..." than to spin in a loop getting 16-bit
> > random numbers from bash.  We would also be at the mercy of the shell
> > being identical on the user and debugger's systems.
> 
> With /dev/urandom you have the guarantee you'll never ever reproduce
> it again. 

That is kind of the point of this testing - getting new test images for
each user that runs "make check" or "make rpm".  I'm We also save the
generated image before e2fsck touches it so that it can be used for
debugging if needed.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-12 22:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-10 13:07 Random corruption test for e2fsck Kalpak Shah
2007-07-10 14:58 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-10 15:42   ` Eric Sandeen
2007-07-11  7:03   ` Kalpak Shah
     [not found]   ` <20070711094410.GM6417@schatzie.adilger.int>
2007-07-11 17:43     ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-12  5:15       ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-12  5:52   ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-10 15:47 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-07-11 16:03   ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-11 15:20 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-12  5:19   ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-12 11:09     ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-12 22:16       ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2007-07-12 22:24         ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-13  7:12           ` Kalpak Shah

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