From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: Filesystem testing Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:00:57 -0600 Message-ID: <52F2ECD9.90909@redhat.com> References: <1391642427.40742.YahooMailNeo@web141002.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mark Brown , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45323 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753635AbaBFCA7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Feb 2014 21:00:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1391642427.40742.YahooMailNeo@web141002.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2/5/14, 5:20 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > As an aside, I looked at xfstests, from what I could gather, it was > started only for xfs, but there is ongoing work to make it work with > ext4(and thus other posix FS?). If someone can point me to the > documentation for xfstests and what it does, that would help. I could > not find much. xfstests has gone pretty far beyond just xfs at this point - it's seen heavy use on ext2/3/4 as well as btrfs in the past several years. There is a README in the git repo; did you have specific questions? We have a lot of tests in there; some are general stress tests, some are specific regression tests, and the body of tests is always growing. Some test IO failures, as well. File system consistency is checked after each test. Etc... -Eric