Re: reiser4 plugins

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > I was able to recover from bad blocks, though of course no Reiser that I
> > know of has had bad block relocation built in...  But I got all my files
> > off of it, fortunately.
> 
> My experience shows that you've been very, very lucky.  I hope r4 is
> better in that regard.
> 
> If you want to try with r3, take a well-used partition[1] and copy it
> at block level to another partition or a file.  Then zero some random
> spans of blocks in the copy and reiserfsck --rebuild-tree it.  My
> experience is that you'll usually get the files names and directory
> tree but their contents will have been scattered all over the place.

Actually it would be nice to have a script to automate this, and test
various filesystems for robustness :-). I done something similar, and
it uncovered few bugs in ext2fsck and vfatfsck; perhaps it is time to
try it on other filesystems, too?
								Pavel

#!/bin/bash
#
# fscktest
#
# Usage: 
#	 Make sure output is logged somewhere
#        First, run fscktest -p as root
#	 Then you can run fscktest as normal user...
#

prepare() {
	SIZE=100000
	echo "Creating file..."
	cat /dev/zero | head -c $[$SIZE*1024] > test
	echo "Making filesystem..."
	/sbin/mkfs.$FS test
	echo "Mounting..."
	mount test -o loop /mnt || exit "Cant mount"
	echo "Copying files..."
	cp -a /bin /mnt
	cp -a /usr/bin /mnt
	cp -a /usr/src/linux /mnt
	echo "Syncing..."
	sync
	echo "Unmounting..."
	umount /mnt
	echo "Moving..."
	mv test fsck.okay
	echo "All done."
}

FS=ext2
if [ .$1 == .-p ]; then
	prepare
	exit
	fi
RUN=0
while true; do
	RUN=$[$RUN+1]
	echo "Run #$RUN"
	echo Preparing...
	cat fsck.okay > fsck.damaged
	echo Damaging...
	dd if=/dev/urandom of=fsck.damaged count=10240 seek=7 conv=notrunc
	cp fsck.damaged fsck.test
	echo First check...
	/sbin/fsck.$FS -fy fsck.damaged
	RESULT=$?
	if [ $RESULT != 1 -a $RESULT != 2 -a $RESULT != 0 ]; then
		echo "Fsck failed in bad way (result = $RESULT)"
		exit
		fi
	echo Second check...
	/sbin/fsck.$FS -fy fsck.damaged
	RESULT=$?
	if [ $RESULT != 0 ]; then
		echo "Fsck lied about its success (result = $RESULT)"
		exit
		fi
	done

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