README
1License:
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3 Copyright (c) International Business Machines Corp., 2001
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5 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
7 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
8 the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
11 useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
12 warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
13 PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
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17 Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston,
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20
21Overview:
22 Name: fs_maim
23 Description: fs_maim is a collection of smaller scripts to stress
24 storage management utilities. Each script has more
25 specific documentation in it.
26
27Files:
28 backbeat
29 partbeat
30 maimparts
31 README
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33Installation: Untar.
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35Use: maimparts <device like hda, sda, etc.> <iterations> <fstype like jfs, ext3, etc>
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37Warning(s): The device you specify on the command line (hda/sda/etc)
38 will be blown away...smoking any important data, programs,
39 OS, etc. Don't specify a device name that you don't want
40 to wipe out.
41 YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
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43ToDo:
44 add validation/error checking stuff that some folks may like
45 add maimraid to stress multiple devices ala md
46 add maimlvm to stress lvm volumes
47 add maimevms to stress evms volumes
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49ChangeLog:
50 Date Version Author Reason
5111/01/01 0.9 Jeff Martin First Draft
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53Jeff Martin
54martinjn@us.ibm.com
55Software Engineers(Verification)
56IBM Linux Technology Center-Test Team
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