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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Xiaoguang Wang <wangxg.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	fstests@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4/004: add dump/restore test
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:59:43 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141216035942.GE2152@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141216025827.GO17575@thunk.org>

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 09:58:27PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 09:44:48AM +0800, Xiaoguang Wang wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah, my intent is to test dump/restore program, and indeed I imitate that
> > how xfs to test xfsdump/xfsrestore, xfs puts xfsdump/xfsrestore tests in
> > corresponding xfs directory.
> 
> I'm finding that the test takes 6-7 minutes to run, partially because
> it's writing close to half a gigabyte worth of data for the
> dump/restore.  Is this really necessary?  Can we perhaps cut down the
> amount of data generated by running fsstress?

Yes, that is too long for an "auto" test. A couple of minutes is
about the limit we should be trying to stick to for auto tests; we
don't really add any extra coverage by making such tests run for a
long time.

As it is, most of the xfsdump/restore tests take around 30-60s to
run, so that's probably a good guide to follow for this.

> And I'll note that using the current fsstress arguments, you are only
> creating regular files and directories, and there are no symlinks,
> device nodes, or FIFO's being created to test whether those files are
> correctly being backed up and restored.

Probably a good idea, too. Thanks for looking at this, Ted.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-16  3:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-25 10:21 [PATCH] ext4/004: add dump/restore test Xiaoguang Wang
2014-12-01  5:45 ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-03  2:44   ` Xiaoguang Wang
2014-12-03  6:40     ` [PATCH v2] " Xiaoguang Wang
2014-12-03  7:49       ` Eryu Guan
2014-12-03  9:47         ` Xiaoguang Wang
2014-12-04  7:29           ` Eryu Guan
2014-12-05  7:16             ` [PATCH v3] ext4: " Xiaoguang Wang
2014-12-06 21:40 ` [PATCH] ext4/004: " Theodore Ts'o
2014-12-06 23:44   ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-08  1:44   ` Xiaoguang Wang
2014-12-16  2:58     ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-12-16  3:59       ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2014-12-16 15:53         ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-12-16 19:36           ` Dave Chinner
2014-12-17  5:16       ` Xiaoguang Wang

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