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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:27:41 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [patch 4/5] fail-injection capability for disk IO
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On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:03:55 +0200
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.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.

> Wouldn't it make a lot
> more sense to do this per-queue instead of a global entity?

Yes, I think so.  /sys/block/sda/sda2/make-it-fail.

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