Hi, Everyone! I have a test scenario that might pose a challenge or might be extremely easy.
Test Setup: I want to setup a filesystem (?) of some sort (?) that has a number of directories and files in it. This can be a directory or mount point anywhere. I am going to chroot my process to that dir/mount point and run a script which will create/modifiy files and directories therein. Script exists* and works now. Test I will run another script that restores the above filesystem (?) to the original, pristine state. I want to recreate the above pristine filesystem (?) over and over again. I also want to diff the directories after my test to be sure the resulting reverted filesystem (?) is exactly the same as the original pristine one. What got me thing along these lines was VMWare images. But the same thing for a directory. Should I use a filesystem created in an ISO image, and then I can mount it in loopback mode? Are there easier ways to accomplish this? What about user-mode file systems. What about must using dd on a filesystem to initial backup and restore for retest and checking. Any other thing I have not thought of? Going for Q&D here. Thanks for all your help. Ed * I should point out that this script exists on one server and I am testing on another server. The OS and built-in pathnames are not the same : /home v. /Users; /lib v. /Library, etc. Hence the chroot. The script is in Perl, but that isn't relevant. -- Ed Howland http://greenprogrammer.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
