From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Subject: Re: Simulating Drive Failure on Mirrored OS drive
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:20:31 +0400
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andy liebman wrote:
> 
>>
>> Read up on the md-faulty device.
> 
> Got any links to this? As I said, we know how to set the device as
> faulty, but I'm not convinced this is a good simulation of a drive that
> fails (times out, becomes unresponsive, etc.)

Note that 'set device as faulty' is NOT the same as `md-faulty device'.
Read mdamd(8) manpage, and see options `-l' (level) and `-p' (parity)
for create mode.

/mjt