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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>,
	linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fuzzing bcachefs with dm-flakey
Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 22:14:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZHUVy7jut1Ex1IGJ@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.21.2305260915400.12513@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com>

On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 04:59:40PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I improved the dm-flakey device mapper target, so that it can do random 
> corruption of read and write bios - I uploaded it here: 
> https://people.redhat.com/~mpatocka/testcases/bcachefs/dm-flakey.c
> 
> I set up dm-flakey, so that it corrupts 10% of read bios and 10% of write 
> bios with this command:
> dmsetup create flakey --table "0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/ram0` flakey /dev/ram0 0 0 1 4 random_write_corrupt 100000000 random_read_corrupt 100000000"

I'm not suggesting that any of the bugs you've found are invalid, but 10%
seems really high.  Is it reasonable to expect any filesystem to cope
with that level of broken hardware?  Can any of our existing ones cope
with that level of flakiness?  I mean, I've got some pretty shoddy USB
cables, but ...


  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-29 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-29 20:59 fuzzing bcachefs with dm-flakey Mikulas Patocka
2023-05-29 21:14 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2023-05-29 23:12   ` Dave Chinner
2023-05-29 23:51     ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-30 12:23   ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-05-29 21:43 ` Kent Overstreet
2023-05-30 21:00   ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-05-30 23:29     ` Kent Overstreet
2023-06-09 20:57       ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-06-09 22:17         ` Kent Overstreet
2023-06-02  1:13 ` Darrick J. Wong
2023-06-09 18:56   ` Mikulas Patocka
2023-06-09 19:38     ` Darrick J. Wong

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