This patch makes f3probe issue single calls of
sequential reads and writes wherever is possible to speed up
the non-destructive (i.e. conservative) mode.
Notice that the non-destructive mode only recovers the usable
blocks of fake drives, and all blocks of legit drives.
probe_device_max_blocks() was returning an int that once multiplied
by block_size was out range.
This patch just enforces probe_device_max_blocks() to return
an uint64_t, and does the needed adjustments in the code.
F3 users have identified fake flashes that reserve a portion of
their good memory to use as a permanent cache.
This patch adds this feature to our model in order to allow us to
develop a new probe algorithm to deal with it.
f3probe was using a kernel-recommended logical block size.
This patch allows f3probe to always find
the last good physical block of devices.
This patch also renames option --block-order to --debug-block-order
since f3probe detects the physical block size of devices.
The new parameter allows users to test drives with
forced block sizes.
This parameter is only meant to help testing drives whose
*real* sizes are not multiples of their block sizes;
this should be rather rare!
The code of the old manual reset couldn't handle the case of
the drive changing its filename, i.e. "/dev/sdb" becomes
"/dev/sdc" after the drive is unplugged and plugged back.
Not only this is a bug, in the rare case the user is
testing multiple drives at the same time, this would lead
to bad behavior.
f3brew, f3 block read write, tests block devices
writing and reading blocks directly to devices.
This is a not-functional version of f3brew.
The main contribution of this patch is to reorganize libprobe.{h,c},
so f3brew, and any future application, can reuse the library.
