From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Reiser4 O_DIRECT Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 10:53:10 -0700 Message-ID: <42921886.40404@namesys.com> References: <1116525192.29446.5.camel@zion> <1116578526.3532.463.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> <1695540869.20050521234900@wp.pl> <200505222247.j4MMlr85008867@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <4291225B.5090503@slaphack.com> <20050523095212.GD11013@nysv.org> <200505231653.j4NGrksq017538@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200505231653.j4NGrksq017538@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: =?UTF-8?B?TWFya3VzIO+/vQ==?= , David Masover , Pysiak Satriani , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: >On Mon, 23 May 2005 12:52:12 +0300, Markus =?UNKNOWN?Q?T=F6rnqvist?= said: > > >>On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 07:22:51PM -0500, David Masover wrote: >> >> >>>Of course, I've worked on sufficiently few big projects that I'm still >>>naive enough to believe that unit tests _can_ catch everything, if >>>they're done right. I'm sure I'll eventually be proven wrong... >>> >>> >>I'm sure a testing professional will happily prove you wrong ;) >> >> > >It's *never* the testing professional that disproves "unit tests can catch everything". > >It's the guy with the creeping-horror Cobol/Python database that finds the stuff >that unit tests can't catch.. ;) > > > My favorite for version 3 (we now test for this in v4 testing) was mozilla truncating files longer rather than shorter. Legal but was not tested for.... fsx is now the standard file system test tool. It still misses a LOT of stuff. Hans