Re: [PATCH/RFC] Lustre VFS patch

[Jens Axboe]

On Tue, May 25 2004, Kevin Corry wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 May 2004 5:52 am, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> > Maybe you could fix this in the test harness / Lustre itself instead and
> > silently discard the writes internally if told so via an (internal)
> > option, instead of needing a change deeper down in the IO layer, or use
> > a DM target which can give you all the failure scenarios you need?
> >
> > In particular the last one - a fault-injection DM target - seems like a
> > very valuable tool for testing in general, but the Lustre-internal
> > approach may be easier in the long run.
> 
> See dm-flakey.c in the latest -udm patchset for a fairly simple version of a 
> "fault-injection" target.
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/dm/patches.html

Would by far be the superior solution.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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