Re: Google SoC Proposal Ideas

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, cberardi%natoufa.com@localhost wrote:
> Another good looking idea is the file resizer utility. Both the utility 
> and the project look interesting. It does call for a regression test 
> suite, but I've never developed anyting more than simple tests for my 
> programs and don't know how involved that would be.

Testing that is simple: resize the filesystem (grow/shrink) by random 
increments (within the disk boundaries) in a loop, and after each resize 
run fsck. If there's something wrong in fsck, check what it is.

Then let that run for a few weeks.

See http://www.feyrer.de/NetBSD/blog.html?-tags=growfs for a similar topic 
that you can probably use as foundation.


> Any ideas or anything I should be looking at or for? Feedback would be 
> appreciated.

I think fs resizing would be of most benefit. But that's only MHO.


 - Hubert