Re: [RFC] fiemap tester

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 04:13:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Fri, 8 May 2009 15:16:49 -0400
>> Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Here is small little program which I and Eric have been working on this week to
>>> better test FIEMAP
>> I for one wouldn't complain were someone to create
>> Documentation/fs/tests/ and to then start filling it with stuff.
> 
> Why oh why do people think Documentation/ is a good place for code?
> 
> tests/ would be a much better place :)
> 
> Last time I brought the idea of a small in-tree test harness up at KS
> people weren't too fond of it, but if we get more backing now we could
> try it, otherwise we can just stick it into xfsqa which will hopefully
> soon be generalized to a general fs QA suite.

FWIW, the xfsprogs test suite git tree is currently at 11M; and that's
mostly just for one subtype of one subsystem.  Aiming to have a full
kernel test suite in the kernel tree sounds lke it could get unwieldy to
me...

I'll stick this new test into xfstests regardless, for now...

-Eric