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Posted Jan 21, 2010 17:36 UTC (Thu) by bcopeland (subscriber, #51750)
In reply to: Testing by epa
Parent article: LCA: Why filesystems are hard

Not sure about VM-based tests (not really necessary) but there are fsfuzzer and various incarnations of fsx to name a couple of popular options.


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Posted Jan 22, 2010 6:57 UTC (Fri) by cpeterso (guest, #305) [Link]

Perhaps the fuzz tests could be used on a filesystem in a loopback device? The host system would be (mostly) protected from corruption of the real filesystem.

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