From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: Updated fsx.c program (fixed fallocate) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:47:59 -0500 Message-ID: <4AC38BBF.4080707@redhat.com> References: <20090826052505.GA22238@webber.adilger.int> <20090929213859.GB13825@webber.adilger.int> <20090929223938.GD3384@webber.adilger.int> <20090930082154.20e351cd.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <4AC37A15.8030407@redhat.com> <20090930161913.GA3425@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Randy Dunlap , Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Eric Sandeen , Subrata Modak , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Jones Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52546 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754197AbZI3QsW (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:48:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090930161913.GA3425@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Dave Jones wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:32:37AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:39:38 -0600 Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > > > >> I've done some work to merge some of the existing fsx.c mods into a > > >> single version. Over & above the version that is in the LTP, I've > > >> included AKPM's O_DIRECT fixes (with a twist), the BSD mmap page and > > >> segfault handling, and per-write fsync. > > > > > > It sure would be Good if fsx-linux had a fixed, known home, instead of > > > having to look at Andrew's ext3-tools, Dave's codemonkey files, > > > LTP, linux-fsdevel mailing list, etc. > > > > > > Is there a linux-fs-tests package somewhere? (like where the xfstests > > > are being merged into) > > > > Well, I think Andreas' idea was to make LTP the official home for now > > which is why I was going to send it here ... > > > > But I don't think xfstests is being merged into anything at the moment; > > if anything, we're working to make it a more generic suite of tests (it > > can run about 50 tests on generic posix filesystems by now). > > I'd love to see a tests/ directory shipped with the kernel. > It's been talked about for about several years and still hasn't happened. > > Is it just because no-one has stepped up to do it ? > I would be happy to manage a git tree for marshalling stuff on its way to Linus > if that's all that's holding this idea back. > > Of course if there are other objections.. > > Dave > Perhaps for simple, small things like fsx.c that might make sense, but a full-blown test suite could add significantly to the size of the tarball I'd think (especially by the time you start including things like including pre-corrupted images, perhaps)... -Eric