Re: [PATCH] xfstests: enable many tests to run on ext2/3/4

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> This gets many of the tests running on ext4 (and should on ext2/ext3
> as well).
> 
> A few things could still be cleaned up; rather than -xfs, -ext3, -ext4
> etc it'd be better to do --fstype xfs or whatnot, and lose as much of
> the special-casing as possible.  But this gets it going, so maybe
> worth merging now as a first step.
> 
> This creates a new supported_fs "generic" type which should run on
> any generic filesystem (well, assuming it supports acls & xattrs, along
> with general posix-ness).
> 
> It also adds a "generic" group, so you can do:
> 
> ./check -ext4 -g generic
> 
> and that way it'll avoid any fs-specific tests.  They wouldn't
> fail anyway, but it gets noisy to see all the "notrun" tests.

For the uninitiated :)  This applies on top of:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git

Apply my patch & build it with make... you'll need xfsprogs,
xfsprogs-devel, and xfsprogs-qa-devel (or make install-dev, make
install-qa from the xfsprogs tarball)*  A few other standard devel
packages like e2fsprogs-devel, acl-devel, attr-devel, libaio-devel are
needed too.

edit a local.config file in the top level dir:

TEST_DEV=/dev/sdb1       # device containing TEST PARTITION
TEST_DIR=/mnt/test       # mount point of TEST PARTITION
SCRATCH_DEV=/dev/sdb3    # device containing SCRATCH PARTITION
SCRATCH_MNT=/mnt/scratch # mount point for SCRATCH PARTITION

mkfs.ext4 the $TEST_DEV

./check -ext4 -g generic

-Eric

*another TODO is probably to make ./configure cope with lack of at least
the xfsprogs-qa-devel headers.  There's still some work to make this
cleaner/easier but this at least gets things going.