diff --git a/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/fsx.adoc b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/fsx.adoc new file mode 100644 --- /dev/null +++ b/website/content/en/status/report-2023-01-2023-03/fsx.adoc @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +=== FSX + +Links: + +link:https://github.com/asomers/fsx-rs[GitHub] URL: https://github.com/asomers/fsx-rs[https://github.com/asomers/fsx-rs] + +link:https://www.freshports.org/devel/fsx/[FreshPorts] URL: https://www.freshports.org/devel/fsx/[https://www.freshports.org/devel/fsx/] + +Contact: Alan Somers + +The venerable FSX (File System eXerciser) tool, first written at Apple Computer in the nineties, has been a part of FreeBSD since 5.0. +It stress tests file systems with a stream of randomly generated operations, verifying file data after every read. +However, it has never been installed as part of the OS; it only exists in the source tree. +That makes it difficult to use in CI pipelines. +It has some other limitations, too. + +So this quarter I rewrote the entire tool in Rust. +The rewrite is byte-for-byte compatible with the original, given identical seed values. +Future versions will break backwards-compatibility, however, in order to add new features like `fspacectl` and `copy_file_range`. +The new version can be found in the ports tree, and in time I'll remove the original.