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+dm-dust
+=======
+
+This target emulates the behavior of bad sectors at arbitrary
+locations, and the ability to enable the emulation of the failures
+at an arbitrary time.
+
+This target behaves similarly to a linear target.  At a given time,
+the user can send a message to the target to start failing read
+requests on specific blocks (to emulate the behavior of a hard disk
+drive with bad sectors).
+
+When the failure behavior is enabled (i.e.: when the output of
+"dmsetup status" displays "fail_read_on_bad_block"), reads of blocks
+in the "bad block list" will fail with EIO ("Input/output error").
+
+Writes of blocks in the "bad block list will result in the following:
+
+1. Remove the block from the "bad block list".
+2. Successfully complete the write.
+
+This emulates the "remapped sector" behavior of a drive with bad
+sectors.
+
+Normally, a drive that is encountering bad sectors will most likely
+encounter more bad sectors, at an unknown time or location.
+With dm-dust, the user can use the "addbadblock" and "removebadblock"
+messages to add arbitrary bad blocks at new locations, and the
+"enable" and "disable" messages to modulate the state of whether the
+configured "bad blocks" will be treated as bad, or bypassed.
+This allows the pre-writing of test data and metadata prior to
+simulating a "failure" event where bad sectors start to appear.
+
+Table parameters
+----------------
+<device_path> <offset> <blksz>
+
+Mandatory parameters:
+    <device_path>:
+        Path to the block device.
+
+    <offset>:
+        Offset to data area from start of device_path
+
+    <blksz>:
+        Block size in bytes
+
+	     (minimum 512, maximum 1073741824, must be a power of 2)
+
+Usage instructions
+------------------
+
+First, find the size (in 512-byte sectors) of the device to be used::
+
+        $ sudo blockdev --getsz /dev/vdb1
+        33552384
+
+Create the dm-dust device:
+(For a device with a block size of 512 bytes)
+
+::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup create dust1 --table '0 33552384 dust /dev/vdb1 0 512'
+
+(For a device with a block size of 4096 bytes)
+
+::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup create dust1 --table '0 33552384 dust /dev/vdb1 0 4096'
+
+Check the status of the read behavior ("bypass" indicates that all I/O
+will be passed through to the underlying device; "verbose" indicates that
+bad block additions, removals, and remaps will be verbosely logged)::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup status dust1
+        0 33552384 dust 252:17 bypass verbose
+
+        $ sudo dd if=/dev/mapper/dust1 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=128 iflag=direct
+        128+0 records in
+        128+0 records out
+
+        $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/dust1 bs=512 count=128 oflag=direct
+        128+0 records in
+        128+0 records out
+
+Adding and removing bad blocks
+------------------------------
+
+At any time (i.e.: whether the device has the "bad block" emulation
+enabled or disabled), bad blocks may be added or removed from the
+device via the "addbadblock" and "removebadblock" messages::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 addbadblock 60
+        kernel: device-mapper: dust: badblock added at block 60
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 addbadblock 67
+        kernel: device-mapper: dust: badblock added at block 67
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 addbadblock 72
+        kernel: device-mapper: dust: badblock added at block 72
+
+These bad blocks will be stored in the "bad block list".
+While the device is in "bypass" mode, reads and writes will succeed::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup status dust1
+        0 33552384 dust 252:17 bypass
+
+Enabling block read failures
+----------------------------
+
+To enable the "fail read on bad block" behavior, send the "enable" message::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 enable
+        kernel: device-mapper: dust: enabling read failures on bad sectors
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup status dust1
+        0 33552384 dust 252:17 fail_read_on_bad_block
+
+With the device in "fail read on bad block" mode, attempting to read a
+block will encounter an "Input/output error"::
+
+        $ sudo dd if=/dev/mapper/dust1 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1 skip=67 iflag=direct
+        dd: error reading '/dev/mapper/dust1': Input/output error
+        0+0 records in
+        0+0 records out
+        0 bytes copied, 0.00040651 s, 0.0 kB/s
+
+...and writing to the bad blocks will remove the blocks from the list,
+therefore emulating the "remap" behavior of hard disk drives::
+
+        $ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mapper/dust1 bs=512 count=128 oflag=direct
+        128+0 records in
+        128+0 records out
+
+        kernel: device-mapper: dust: block 60 removed from badblocklist by write
+        kernel: device-mapper: dust: block 67 removed from badblocklist by write
+        kernel: device-mapper: dust: block 72 removed from badblocklist by write
+        kernel: device-mapper: dust: block 87 removed from badblocklist by write
+
+Bad block add/remove error handling
+-----------------------------------
+
+Attempting to add a bad block that already exists in the list will
+result in an "Invalid argument" error, as well as a helpful message::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 addbadblock 88
+        device-mapper: message ioctl on dust1  failed: Invalid argument
+        kernel: device-mapper: dust: block 88 already in badblocklist
+
+Attempting to remove a bad block that doesn't exist in the list will
+result in an "Invalid argument" error, as well as a helpful message::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 removebadblock 87
+        device-mapper: message ioctl on dust1  failed: Invalid argument
+        kernel: device-mapper: dust: block 87 not found in badblocklist
+
+Counting the number of bad blocks in the bad block list
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+To count the number of bad blocks configured in the device, run the
+following message command::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 countbadblocks
+
+A message will print with the number of bad blocks currently
+configured on the device::
+
+        countbadblocks: 895 badblock(s) found
+
+Querying for specific bad blocks
+--------------------------------
+
+To find out if a specific block is in the bad block list, run the
+following message command::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 queryblock 72
+
+The following message will print if the block is in the list::
+
+        dust_query_block: block 72 found in badblocklist
+
+The following message will print if the block is not in the list::
+
+        dust_query_block: block 72 not found in badblocklist
+
+The "queryblock" message command will work in both the "enabled"
+and "disabled" modes, allowing the verification of whether a block
+will be treated as "bad" without having to issue I/O to the device,
+or having to "enable" the bad block emulation.
+
+Clearing the bad block list
+---------------------------
+
+To clear the bad block list (without needing to individually run
+a "removebadblock" message command for every block), run the
+following message command::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 clearbadblocks
+
+After clearing the bad block list, the following message will appear::
+
+        dust_clear_badblocks: badblocks cleared
+
+If there were no bad blocks to clear, the following message will
+appear::
+
+        dust_clear_badblocks: no badblocks found
+
+Listing the bad block list
+--------------------------
+
+To list all bad blocks in the bad block list (using an example device
+with blocks 1 and 2 in the bad block list), run the following message
+command::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 listbadblocks
+        1
+        2
+
+If there are no bad blocks in the bad block list, the command will
+execute with no output::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 listbadblocks
+
+Message commands list
+---------------------
+
+Below is a list of the messages that can be sent to a dust device:
+
+Operations on blocks (requires a <blknum> argument)::
+
+        addbadblock <blknum>
+        queryblock <blknum>
+        removebadblock <blknum>
+
+...where <blknum> is a block number within range of the device
+(corresponding to the block size of the device.)
+
+Single argument message commands::
+
+        countbadblocks
+        clearbadblocks
+        listbadblocks
+        disable
+        enable
+        quiet
+
+Device removal
+--------------
+
+When finished, remove the device via the "dmsetup remove" command::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup remove dust1
+
+Quiet mode
+----------
+
+On test runs with many bad blocks, it may be desirable to avoid
+excessive logging (from bad blocks added, removed, or "remapped").
+This can be done by enabling "quiet mode" via the following message::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 quiet
+
+This will suppress log messages from add / remove / removed by write
+operations.  Log messages from "countbadblocks" or "queryblock"
+message commands will still print in quiet mode.
+
+The status of quiet mode can be seen by running "dmsetup status"::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup status dust1
+        0 33552384 dust 252:17 fail_read_on_bad_block quiet
+
+To disable quiet mode, send the "quiet" message again::
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup message dust1 0 quiet
+
+        $ sudo dmsetup status dust1
+        0 33552384 dust 252:17 fail_read_on_bad_block verbose
+
+(The presence of "verbose" indicates normal logging.)
+
+"Why not...?"
+-------------
+
+scsi_debug has a "medium error" mode that can fail reads on one
+specified sector (sector 0x1234, hardcoded in the source code), but
+it uses RAM for the persistent storage, which drastically decreases
+the potential device size.
+
+dm-flakey fails all I/O from all block locations at a specified time
+frequency, and not a given point in time.
+
+When a bad sector occurs on a hard disk drive, reads to that sector
+are failed by the device, usually resulting in an error code of EIO
+("I/O error") or ENODATA ("No data available").  However, a write to
+the sector may succeed, and result in the sector becoming readable
+after the device controller no longer experiences errors reading the
+sector (or after a reallocation of the sector).  However, there may
+be bad sectors that occur on the device in the future, in a different,
+unpredictable location.
+
+This target seeks to provide a device that can exhibit the behavior
+of a bad sector at a known sector location, at a known time, based
+on a large storage device (at least tens of gigabytes, not occupying
+system memory).