Re: [PATCH blktests 1/9] blktests: add hepler functions for new md tests

Jens Axboe
2018-06-07T12:59:21Z

On 6/7/18 12:55 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 10:45:02AM +0800, bingjingc wrote:
>> Hi Johannes & Jens,
>>
>> Thank you for your information and positive feedbacks on this patch.
>>
>> I'm also inspired by xfstests, too. Most conventional filesystems
>> have their test cases on it. I believe block layer can also have one.
>>
>> I felt sorry. It's first time I realized there is a test suite under
>> mdadm project. Now, I am trying to find documentation to get
>> it works. I can examine the efforts of migrating them or just
>> triggering them from blktests.
>>
>> Any ideas from linux-block and linux-raid channels are welcome. :)
>
> Migrating them over would be the best thing since sliced bread. Having
> to run only one test suite for the linux block device space is our
> long term goal.

Fully agree. And don't feel bad about not knowing there's an md test
suite, I didn't either. Which is one of the reasons why having
everything under the blktests umbrella is so important.

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Jens Axboe