Re: Testsuite (was: Re: Hi!)

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:31:38AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 10:06 +0100, Steve Long wrote:
> > > Testing, discussing and reporting bugs are a great first step.
> > >
> > Just wondering whether btrfs has, or might want, something like this:
> > http://blogs.sun.com/bill/entry/zfs_and_the_all_singing
> > 
> > I don't have anything like it from btrfs-progs, apart from btrfs-debug-tree.
> > I'm sure you're doing tests internally and users are testing stuff too; 
> > formalising it a bit and collaborating on that element might be useful?
> > 
> > (Apologies if I'm missing something obvious.)
> 
> We don't have an official test suite yet, but a few people are working
> on various parts of it.  It is definitely an area where collaboration is
> useful and needed.

And I'd like to again say that if you want to start on a testsuite it
might be a good idea to extend the xfs testsuite.  It already deals with
udf and partially nfs and having one testsuite to run on multiple
filesystems is always a good idea.  It already supports testcases
specific to a certain filesystem or OS.