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To install:
For 2.4:
- Start with a 2.4.26 tree from kernel.org
- Apply the 2.4.26 (pre) device mapper patch
For 2.6:
- Get a 2.6.7 kernel.org tree, it already has device mapper
For both:
- Make sure device mapper is enabled in the configuration
- Now:
cd drivers/md
tar -xzf ddsnap-2.6.XX.tgz
cd ddsnap
make
- Apply the ddsnap-2.4.26 patch that you see in this directory.
From the root of the 2.6 tree:
patch -p1 <ddsnap-2.6.XX
- Rebuild the kernel on your test machine, install and reboot
To run tests, you need a couple of block devices named /dev/test-origin
and /dev/test-snapstore. These can just be symlinks to test partitions
on some disk, or they can even be files (I think, but I haven't tested
this for a while). Once you have the devices you are ready to go:
make test
Check out what the test is actually doing by looking in the makefile.
Basically, it's:
- try to clean up from a previous test by killing the server and
removing the dm device
- recreate the snapshot store, so each test starts clean
- start the snapshot server
- create a snapshot or origin client
- run pokedev, which randomly or sequentially reads or writes a bunch
of 4K blocks on the snapshot or origin virtual device
Watch the tracing output to see what happened. The kernel driver
tracing defaults to on at the moment, so there should be lots of
console output for each IO transfer.
Please let me know what I've forgotten in the above recipes, so that I
can incorporate improvements. One thing: the makefile tests
arbitrarily bind the server to port 8080, chances are good you are
using this for something else. I should think of a better default
port. Anyway, just edit the makefile for now.
To remove the test device mapper device:
make test9
Note note note! This source tree is in mid-hack! It's pretty in place
and ugly in others.

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