License:

    Copyright (c) International Business Machines  Corp., 2001

    This program is free software;  you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
    published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
    the License, or (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be 
    useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;  without even the implied 
    warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
    PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
 
    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public 
    License along with this program;  if not, write to the Free 
    Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, 
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Overview: 
    Name:          fs_maim 
    Description:   fs_maim is a collection of smaller scripts to stress
                   storage management utilities.  Each script has more 
                   specific documentation in it.
                        
Files:
    backbeat
    partbeat
    maimparts
    README 
                        
Installation:      Untar. 
                        
Use:               maimparts <device like hda, sda, etc.> <iterations> <fstype like jfs, ext3, etc>

Warning(s):        The device you specify on the command line (hda/sda/etc)
                   will be blown away...smoking any important data, programs, 
                   OS, etc.  Don't specify a device name that you don't want 
                   to wipe out.
                   YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

ToDo:
                   add validation/error checking stuff that some folks may like
                   add maimraid to stress multiple devices ala md
                   add maimlvm to stress lvm volumes
                   add maimevms to stress evms volumes

ChangeLog:
    Date      Version       Author                  Reason
11/01/01      0.9           Jeff Martin             First Draft

Jeff Martin
martinjn@us.ibm.com
Software Engineers(Verification)
IBM Linux Technology Center-Test Team
