Re: How can I simulate disk failure on 2.4?

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Tue, 8 Apr 2003 22:11:51 -0700


Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> 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") ;)
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