Re: Simulating faulty disk

Yathindra
2011-10-20T17:53:55Z

Oh I see. Maybe dm-delay is not enabled in ubuntu either.

Could you please tell me how I could enable it.

Thanks,
Yathi

On 10/20/2011 11:40 AM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> On 10/20/2011 05:46 PM, Yathindra wrote:
>> >dmsetup create d0 --table="0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/sdb` delay
>> /dev/sdb 0 500"
>> device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
>> Command failed
>>
>> In /var/log/messages I see this,
>> device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
>
> I don't see this here:
>
> # dmsetup create d0 --table="0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/sdb` delay
> /dev/sdb 0 500"
> # dmsetup info -c d0
> Name Maj Min Stat Open Targ Event UUID
> d0 253 3 L--w 1 1 0
> # dmsetup create f0 --table="0 `blockdev --getsize /dev/mapper/d0`
> flakey /dev/mapper/d0 0 9 1"
> # dmsetup info -c f0
> Name Maj Min Stat Open Targ Event UUID
> f0 253 4 L--w 0 1 0
>
> This is using the f15 2.6.40.3 (aka kernel-3.0) with a locally
> compiled dm-delay since it's not enabled in the Fedora kernels.
>
> Might want to move this thread over to dm-devel if you're having
> trouble with it.
>
> Regards,
> Bryn.