[plug] Stressing a disk

[Trevor Phillips]

On Thursday 09 January 2003 11:31, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 
> Um, won't the md5sums produced be meaningless, as they are computed at
> the same time as the disk writes?  Plus you could end up with several
> dd's running after a few iterations if they take longer to complete than
> the md5sum.  I'd not want to try it even on a disc without a live
> filesystem :)

I think the point of the md5sum was to be another non-backgrounded read of the 
partition. Theoretically it should take longer to md5sum than the dd's, thus 
preventing multiple iterations of the backgrounded dd's.

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