file system tests (fs-tests)

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind at infradead.org
Fri Nov 30 13:22:43 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 21:18 +0530, Ram wrote:
> Hi,
>   I am trying to test my nand drivers using the fs-tests package found
> on mtd utils git tree.
> 
>   My test area (JFFS2 partition size) is 8MB.
> 
>   Most of the tests have passed. However some of the tests take too much time
>   to complete.
>   The test "rndrm00" takes over 2 hours to complete.
>   The test "stress00.sh" has taken 4 hours to complete.
> 
>   When i run stress00.sh - The system becomes too slow. commands like
>   df -h and ps -l take too much time to execute.
> 
>   However, I have not seen any JFFS2 errors when i ran these tests.
> 
>   Is something wrong? Worried about the time taken by these tests.
> 
>   Is this normal?.

Its fine, they just torture the FS a lot. Look inside the scripts and
change the iteration counts if you want to make them pass faster.

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)




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