Re: Linux Stability & cold.system
Topi Miettinen (Topi.Miettinen@ml.tele.fi)
Fri, 21 Nov 1997 16:00:43 +0200
tytso@mit.edu writes:
> I agree that a good test suite for testing generic filesystem
> implementation is sorely needed. Anyone looking for a good project
> which doesn't require much in the way of kernel internals? It would be
> great way to get someone who's interested in getting more deeply
> involved with the kernel started....
I once (1.3.64) hacked fs subtree with ext2, minix, msdos and vfat to work
(to some degree) in user mode by writing stubs for kmalloc, ll_rw_block and
friends. It could "mount" filesystem, read directory entries and stat. I
guess this way you could do some testing, make the fake device return
errors at random times etc.
If anyone is interested, drop me a note.
-Topi