From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Carsten Aulbert <carsten@welcomes-you.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: How to damage a XFS-Filesystem?
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 09:48:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080102174805.GA32592@puku.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <477B8EAB.8000703@welcomes-you.com>
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:16:27PM +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> A file server with a 10 TB large xfs file system running on a RAID6
> SATA array, the server has 16 GB of memory. I want to test how long
> it would take to run xfs_repair on it and if the amount of memory is
> enough for that.
It depends on how fast the IO is and also how many files there are.
If you have a small number of really large files it's fairly fast, if
you have a large number of really small files (ie. email maildir) then
it tends to be much slower.
> (2) Damage the file sytem
> (3) Run xfs_repair
xfs_repair will run without having to damage the filesystem (though
if/when damaged it will probably be a little slower).
> Otherwise: How can a damage a xfs file system to make the job harder
> for xfs_repair.
Google for fsfuzzer.
> I guess a simple dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sdb1 with some offsets
> will not be very effective, right?
If it misses the metadata, xfs_repair won't even notice. If you whack
large chunks of metadata you might see considerable data loss.
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2008-01-02 13:16 How to damage a XFS-Filesystem? Carsten Aulbert
2008-01-02 17:48 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
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