Re: remove _supported_fs

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

On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 07:58:24AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> this series removes the remaining _supported_fs calls and replaces them
> with a new _exclude_fs call.
> 
> The first patch removes a _supported_fs for a relatively new test from
> Brian that fails on other file systems.  We should still run it so that
> people have a chance to fix the corruption, so I think this make sense.
> 
> Then the ext4 directory is split so that the shared extN tests have their
> own directory, and then it finally does the switch over now that now many
> _supported_fs calls are left.

Hmm, instead of doing this (would require hard-coding support for ext2
and ext3 file systems needing to use ext-common), why not just have
special-case code which causes ext2 and ext3 file systems to include
the ext4 group, and then we'll have _exclude_fs declaractions as
needed for ext2 and ext3?

After all, ext3 has been removed except for the very oldest LTS
kernels (and I dount anyone is actually testing ext3 using xfstests
these days), and ext2 is not used by most distributions (they use
CONFIG_EXT4_USE_EXT2) and the reason why we've kept it around is that
it's a realtively simple file system that still uses the more modern,
non-legacy vfs/mm interfaces.

So it might not be worth it to move a bunch of tests and creating a
new (somewhat ugly) group, ext4-common, IMO.

Cheers,

						- Ted