From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests 224: test aio hole-fill at 4g Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:11:13 -0500 Message-ID: <20100130191113.GC10181@infradead.org> References: <4B633F9A.8000404@sandeen.net> <20100130105501.GA22909@infradead.org> <4B645B0D.205@sandeen.net> <20100130172502.GA788@thunk.org> <4B647AFE.5000507@sandeen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: tytso@mit.edu, Christoph Hellwig , ext4 development , xfs-oss , Giel de Nijs To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:48270 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752415Ab0A3TLO (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:11:14 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B647AFE.5000507@sandeen.net> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:31:26PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > These are the deps that I know xfstests has, to build and to run: > > BuildRequires: autoconf, libtool, xfsprogs-devel, e2fsprogs-devel > BuildRequires: libacl-devel, libattr-devel, libaio-devel > > Requires: bash, xfsprogs, xfsdump, perl, acl, attr, bind-utils > Requires: bc, indent, quota > > which isn't so bad... Doesn't seem to bad. Indent is afaik only needed for the weird 122 test which doesn't apply to non-xfs filesystems. > I'm not sure an xfsprogs dependency is so onerous; plenty has depended > on e2fsprogs through the years and we've lived with that ;) But > the lag time for xfsprogs to use released xfs_io functionality is a > bit of a bummer. > > But I guess I don't have a great answer for who else uses xfs_io: I use xfs_io in lots various local scripts. It's a really handly tool for exercising some of the more weird I/O related syscalls.