Re: Updated fsx.c program (fixed fallocate)

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:32:37AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>  > Randy Dunlap wrote:
>  > > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:39:38 -0600 Andreas Dilger wrote:
>  > > 
>  > >> I've done some work to merge some of the existing fsx.c mods into a
>  > >> single version.  Over & above the version that is in the LTP, I've
>  > >> included AKPM's O_DIRECT fixes (with a twist), the BSD mmap page and
>  > >> segfault handling, and per-write fsync.
>  > > 
>  > > It sure would be Good if fsx-linux had a fixed, known home, instead of
>  > > having to look at Andrew's ext3-tools, Dave's codemonkey files,
>  > > LTP, linux-fsdevel mailing list, etc.
>  > > 
>  > > Is there a linux-fs-tests package somewhere?  (like where the xfstests
>  > > are being merged into)
>  > 
>  > Well, I think Andreas' idea was to make LTP the official home for now 
>  > which is why I was going to send it here ...
>  > 
>  > But I don't think xfstests is being merged into anything at the moment; 
>  > if anything, we're working to make it a more generic suite of tests (it 
>  > can run about 50 tests on generic posix filesystems by now).
> 
> I'd love to see a tests/ directory shipped with the kernel.
> It's been talked about for about several years and still hasn't happened.
> 
> Is it just because no-one has stepped up to do it ?
> I would be happy to manage a git tree for marshalling stuff on its way to Linus
> if that's all that's holding this idea back.
> 
> Of course if there are other objections..
> 
> 	Dave
>  

Perhaps for simple, small things like fsx.c that might make sense, but a 
full-blown test suite could add significantly to the size of the tarball 
I'd think (especially by the time you start including things like 
including pre-corrupted images, perhaps)...

-Eric