Re: Btrfs progs git repo on kernel.org

[Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>]

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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 05:32:58PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 04:58:54PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:27:07AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> > > I've pulled in Hugo's integration tree, minus the features that were not
> > > yet in the kernel.  This also has a few small commits that I had queued
> > > up outside of the fsck work.
> > > 
> > > Hugo, many thanks for keeping up the integration tree!  Taking out the
> > > features not in the kernel meant I had to rebase it the commits, I'm
> > > sorry about that.
> > 
> >    OK, I'm sure I can cope with that. I'll just drop the patches from
> > my stack that you've already brought in, and generate a new
> > integration branch based on your master. I've got 4-5 other patches to
> > add in as well, gleaned from the mailing list and, via David Sterba,
> > from SuSE's local patches.
> > 
> >    I've also got the basis of a set of regression tests for -progs,
> > which I'll send out patches for in the next couple of days. At the
> > moment, it only tests building and snapshots, but should be relatively
> > easily extensible to the other bits of ./btrfs (although I'm not sure
> > how we can easily and repeatably test the recovery tools).
> 
> Please talk with Anand Jain on the test programs, he has been making
> scripts for xfs-tests.

   Will do, although I think we're aiming at different things. I'm
very definitely *not* attempting to test the filesystem itself with my
test harness. I just want to exercise all the bits of the userspace
tools that I can. (This was primarily triggered by the mess
surrounding the parsing of "btrfs sub snap" parameters).

> >    One other thing that's *really* needed is a new version tag, which
> > I was going to do this weekend, but it looks like you're back at the
> > helm of -progs, so I'll just whine in your general direction instead.
> 
> Definitely, fsck deserves a new version tag.

   You mean we've got to wait *that* long? ;)

   Hugo.

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