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[Justin Swanhart <greenlion@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

If you don't mind corrupting more than just the database (such as open
memory mapped files) then you can also try this in your VM:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mem

:D

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 9:46 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>
>
> Am 02.02.2016 um 15:12 schrieb Federico Razzoli:
>
>> I am looking for a way to intentionally corrupt a table in a "natural"
>> way. Of course I can open a file with Vim and change random characters, but
>> I would probably obtain a kind of corruption that never occurs in the real
>> world.
>> The purpose is testing recovery procedures
>>
>
> * virtual machine
> * snaphot
> * make a lot of writes and changes
> * trigger crash of the machine with 2 commands
>
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
> echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger
>
>
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