Re: Testing of filesystems

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Axel Siebenwirth wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I wonder what a good way is to stress test my JFS filesystem. Is there a tool
> that does something like that maybe? Dont't want performance testing, just
> all kinds of stress testing to see how the filesystem "is" and to check
> integrity and functionality.
> What are you filesystem developers use to do something like that?
> 
> Thanks,
> Axel

Compile the kernel in a directory tree on the file-system you
want to test......

while true ; do make clean ; make -j 16 bzImage ; make modules ; done

Let this run for a day or so...

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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