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+=== 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 <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's 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.

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