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

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Date:	Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:34:20 +0200
From:	Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe <Mario.Holbe@...Ilmenau.DE>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: [patch 4/5] fail-injection capability for disk IO

Jens Axboe <axboe@...e.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 23 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> I think I would prefer a stackable driver instead of this hook.

I second this, preferrably a device-mapper target similar to dm-error.

> But that makes it more tricky to setup a test, since you have to change
> from using /dev/sda (for example) to /dev/stacked-driver.

Do you really think somebody would run such tests on otherwise normally
used devices?


regards
   Mario
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