Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs fixes for 6.12-rc2

Kent Overstreet
2024-10-06T04:33:56Z

On Sun, Oct 06, 2024 at 12:30:02AM GMT, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 05, 2024 at 08:54:32PM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
> > But I also have to remind you that I'm one of the few people who's
> > actually been pushing for more and better automated testing (I now have
> > infrastructure for the communty that anyone can use, just ask me for an
> > account) - and that's been another solo effort because so few people are
> > even interested, so the fact that this even came up grates on me. This
> > is a problem with a technical solution, and instead we're all just
> > arguing.
>
> Um, hello? All of the file system developers have our own automated
> testing, and my system, {kvm,gce,android}-xfstests[1][[2] and Luis's
> kdevops[3] are both availble for others to use. We've done quite a
> lot in terms of doumentations and making it easier for others to use.
> (And that's not incluing the personal test runners used by folks like
> Josef, Cristoph, Dave, and Darrick.)
>
> [1] https://thunk.org/gce-xfstest
> [2] https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld
> [3] https://github.com/linux-kdevops/kdevops
>
> That's why we're not particularly interested in yours --- my system
> has been in active use since 2011, and it's been well-tuned for me and
> others to use. (For example, Leah has been using it for XFS stable
> backports, and it's also used for testing Google's Data Center
> kernels, and GCE's Cloud Optimized OS.)
>
> You may believe that yours is better than anyone else's, but with
> respect, I disagree, at least for my own workflow and use case. And
> if you look at the number of contributors in both Luis and my xfstests
> runners[2][3], I suspect you'll find that we have far more
> contributors in our git repo than your solo effort....

Correct me if I'm wrong, but your system isn't available to the
community, and I haven't seen a CI or dashboard for kdevops?

Believe me, I would love to not be sinking time into this as well, but
we need to standardize on something everyone can use.