file system check software

[Dan Ritter]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:09:41AM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> As I move through this corrupted file system problem, I'm going to have 
> to wipe out my 7 terabyte file system and rebuild it. But not that I 
> live in a world of data paranoia, I'd like to run some kind of file 
> system checking software. Does something like that exist? Basically I 
> need to write large (multi gigabyte files) filled with random numbers 
> and copy them around and do diffs and md5sum checks. This should go on 
> for about a week of continuous write, read and checking.
> 
> I could probably put a shell script together to do this, but it would be 
> great if there were something 'out there' that did the job for me....

My first thought is that bonnie++ does some of this.
http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/

What it doesn't do is check on accuracy, but it wouldn't be too
horrendously difficult to add that as a feature, especially
since that's something that Coker wrote in Postal/Rabid, his
mail system performance tester. (You might even suggest it as a
useful enhancement for bonnie++ 2.0.)

If you end up scripting it, I think bonnie++ runs alternating
with AIDE ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide/ ) runs will do
most of what you want.

-dsr- 

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