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	+=== FSX
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	+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/]
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	+Contact: Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
	+
	+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.