From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272220AbTHIAjm (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 20:39:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272158AbTHIAjY (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 20:39:24 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:20114 "EHLO imladris.demon.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272168AbTHIAiZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Aug 2003 20:38:25 -0400 Subject: Re: Reiser4 status: benchmarked vs. V3 (and ext3) From: David Woodhouse To: Bernd Eckenfels Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1060389503.11983.39.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.1 (dwmw2) Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2003 01:38:23 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: ecki@calista.eckenfels.6bone.ka-ip.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No; SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This box is IPv4 only -- your email address with only an AAAA record is probably going to bounce again... :) On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 01:29, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Is this needing some special hardware support, or is it kind of forcing > apm/apci power downs? Can you publish that script? I would need that for > some stress testing of applications and the kernel. I didn't do it myself -- I just got to fix the bugs which turned up ;) I think it was done with X10 automated power switching stuff. > I also wonder, what the best method is to test those hard crashes, > especially interesting is the case, where disks get power interruption at > write, to see if the filesystem and block layer recovers from things like > half written (format needing) blocks. Journal at application layer to external network-attached storage. Check on-device fs integrity against your network journal at boot, continue stress testing from where you left off. -- dwmw2