Re: suggested ways of faking EIO?

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:12:36 -0800
Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Nov 23), Julian Elischer said:
>> I need to make physio make a request from disk, and have the request
>> come back asynchronously with an EIO. 
>>
>> I have tried just reading some distance past the end of a partition,
>> but I'm not totally convinced that it acts exactly like as if I'd
>> tried to read a bad sector. Since geom has been added, the legality
>> of a read needs to be tested in the geometry layer, so I suppose it
>> must come back asynchronously, as that is no longer directly executed
>> through function calls but is it really the same as a disk failure?
>>
>> Anyone done this? or does anyone have a disk with a known bad sector
>> I can try my test case on? :-)
> 
> The geom NOP module can fail a given percentage of I/O with whatever
> error number you choose.  You could hack g_nop.c to make it fail on a
> given sector instead.
>  

great! that's the hint I'm looking for...
(now to work out how to use it)
Received on Sat Nov 24 2007 - 08:12:44 UTC

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