This utility, "File System N-View," interprets a disk partition or whole disk with multiple DFXML-generating storage parsers, and compares the results.
Currently this utility compares an XTAF storage system with multiple tools, and can do much of the same analysis with pre-generated DFXML output.
See INSTALL.
fsnview takes as its first argument a command, compare or xbox360. The same objectives are accomplished with either command:
- Compare - Takes multiple DFXML files and produces differential DFXML files and aggregations.
- Report - Reports the comparison results, producing an HTML report. Tables are also produced in LaTeX.
The xbox360 command will also handle running multiple storage system metadata parsers against a disk image, mounted with UPartsFS, generating one DFXML file per tool. The compare command assumes you have run the tools yourself and will provide the pre-computed DFXML.
At present the xbox360 command has been more extensively tested than the compare command.
By default, results are created in the current working directory. The results storage hierarchy is:
dfxml/- The DFXML output from tools (produced with thexbox360command).validation/- Results of runningxmllinton each tool's DFXML file.report.html- Final report
The directories that end with ".sh" also record their respective scripts' standard out, standard error, exit status, and successful completion time in {out,err,status,done}.log.
In the output directory, most users will also be interested in these files (which have corresponding .tex files for those of the LaTeX persuasion):
summary.html- A summary of file system statistics, according to each parser run on the disk image.diffs.html- A pairwise comparison of the file system parsers' particular statistics (e.g. Parser 1 found N more deleted files than Parser 2, etc.).