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From: Mark Tinguely <tinguely@sgi.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] xfstests: add d_type checking to fsstress
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:22:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52378494.7000406@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52377E50.3040907@redhat.com>

On 09/16/13 16:55, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> This patch adds a "-D" switch to fsstress so that every time
> we call readdir, we stat the dentry&  compare it's st_mode
> to the d_type.
>
> If -D is specified only once, it ignores DT_UNKNOWN.  If specified
> twice, it considers DT_UNKNOWN to be an error.
>
> It skips paths of "./." and "./.." so that we only look at files
> newly created within the filesystem.
>
> This could be used in an xfstest; it's noisy on a failures so
> would break expected output.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen<sandeen@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> fsstress doesn't usually do validation, but it's such a handy
> framework for creating a ton of random files, this seems like
> an ok place to put it.  What do folks think?

I tried v5 and v4 with and without inode fields in the directory.
This looks good to me. Like the 2 levels of the test.

--Mark.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-16 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-16 21:55 [PATCH, RFC] xfstests: add d_type checking to fsstress Eric Sandeen
2013-09-16 22:22 ` Mark Tinguely [this message]
2013-09-16 22:55 ` Dave Chinner
2013-09-16 23:20   ` Eric Sandeen
2013-09-17  0:54   ` Eric Sandeen

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