From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Testsuite (was: Re: Hi!) Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:15:14 -0400 Message-ID: <20080825171514.GA15530@infradead.org> References: <1219221805.15514.13.camel@telesto> <1219256750.7854.7.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> <200808251006.03791.slong@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> <1219667498.28188.4.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Steve Long , linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Chris Mason Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1219667498.28188.4.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> List-ID: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:31:38AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 10:06 +0100, Steve Long wrote: > > > Testing, discussing and reporting bugs are a great first step. > > > > > Just wondering whether btrfs has, or might want, something like this: > > http://blogs.sun.com/bill/entry/zfs_and_the_all_singing > > > > I don't have anything like it from btrfs-progs, apart from btrfs-debug-tree. > > I'm sure you're doing tests internally and users are testing stuff too; > > formalising it a bit and collaborating on that element might be useful? > > > > (Apologies if I'm missing something obvious.) > > We don't have an official test suite yet, but a few people are working > on various parts of it. It is definitely an area where collaboration is > useful and needed. And I'd like to again say that if you want to start on a testsuite it might be a good idea to extend the xfs testsuite. It already deals with udf and partially nfs and having one testsuite to run on multiple filesystems is always a good idea. It already supports testcases specific to a certain filesystem or OS.