Re: How can I simulate disk failure on 2.4?

[Andrew Morton]

Chuck Ebbert <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>   I need some kind of way to fail a single disk partition (hdg8) while the
> system is running, then reenable it.  It doesn't have to be general-purpose
> and
> I don't mind doing ugly hacks to the disk code to make it happen.

Stephen Tweedie has a gizmo which does that.

http://people.redhat.com/sct/patches/testdrive/testdrive-1.1-for-2.4.19pre10.patch

The documentation is at google("tweedie testdrive") ;)