Re: [PATCH] ext4/004: add dump/restore test

[Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 02:59:43PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 
> 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.

I'm currently running with a patch that cuts it down to ~22 seconds
(and about 60 megs worth of data in the dump and restore directory).
I'll send a patch....

> > 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.

I looked a bit more closely at this, and unfortunately it's not a
quick fix.  The issue is that the test is currently using diff -r to
verify that the restore directory == the dump directory, and diff
doesn't handle special files.

Doing this right might require writing a special case directory
comparison script in perl, or some such; if we do this, then we can
also have the directory comparison tool also check to make sure the
uid/gid/mode bits match, which diff also doesn't handle.

					- Ted