<div>ah, I mistook "fsprobe(8)" to be a reference to section 8 of the unix man.</div>
<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>Peter<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Loic Tortay</b> <<a href="mailto:tortay@cc.in2p3.fr">tortay@cc.in2p3.fr</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">According to Peter St. John:<br>><br>> UGU isn't what it used to be (but neither am I). I'm having trouble finding
<br>> a man page for fsprobe; can you specifiy a flavor of unix?<br>><br>"fsprobe" is not a standard Unix command.<br><br>It's a tool developped by Peter Kelemen from CERN to routinely check<br>for silent data corruption on disks.
<br><br>It's very simple and basically just writes data to disk then reads the<br>data back and compares what was written and read (expecting things to<br>be identical).<br><br>You can find more details there:<br> <
<a href="http://cern.ch/Peter.Kelemen/fsprobe/">http://cern.ch/Peter.Kelemen/fsprobe/</a>>.<br><br><br>Loïc.<br>--<br>| Loïc Tortay <<a href="mailto:tortay@cc.in2p3.fr">tortay@cc.in2p3.fr</a>> - IN2P3 Computing Centre |
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