linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/5] fail-injection capability for disk IO

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Date:	Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:22:31 -0700
From:	Hans Reiser <reiser@...esys.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
CC:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...e.de>, Akinobu Mita <mita@...aclelinux.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, okuji@...ug.org
Subject: Re: [patch 4/5] fail-injection capability for disk IO

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:03:55 +0200
> Jens Axboe <axboe@...e.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Wed, Aug 23 2006, Akinobu Mita wrote:
>>     
>>> This patch provides fail-injection capability for disk IO.
>>>
>>> Boot option:
>>>
>>> 	fail_make_request=<probability>,<interval>,<times>,<space>
>>>
>>> 	<probability>
>>>
>>> 		specifies how often it should fail in percent.
>>>
>>> 	<interval>
>>>
>>> 		specifies the interval of failures.
>>>
>>> 	<times>
>>>
>>> 		specifies how many times failures may happen at most.
>>>
>>> 	<space>
>>>
>>> 		specifies the size of free space where disk IO can be issued
>>> 		safely in bytes.
>>>
>>> Example:
>>>
>>> 	fail_make_request=100,10,-1,0
>>>
>>> generic_make_request() fails once per 10 times.
>>>       
>> Hmm dunno, seems a pretty useless feature to me.
>>     
>
> We need it.  What is the FS/VFS/VM behaviour in the presence of IO
> errors?  Nobody knows, because we rarely test it.  Those few times where
> people _do_ test it (the hard way), bad things tend to happen.  reiserfs
> (for example) likes to go wobble, wobble, wobble, BUG.
>   
The iron folks tested it, and we did better than other FS's.  That said,
it seems like a valuable feature to me.
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