Re: fs test suite

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On 07 Oct 2003 12:54:57 -0600 Pat LaVarre <p.lavarre@ieee.org> wrote:

| > Are you looking for a test (suite) that tests
| > fs metadata moreso than fs IO?  People have
| > asked for that a few times, but I don't know
| > of one that is made for that.
| 
| May I ask you to elaborate?  I'm not yet confident I understand the
| question.  I mean to ask how do I increase my confidence that 2.4.x and
| 2.6.x udf.ko will read back to me what I wrote thru it.  I figure that
| mixes together metadata and data, since the metadata tells me how much
| and from where I read back my data.

Sure, they are usually mixed, but some tests emphasize (or stress)
file data IO vs. metadata more than others do.
And sometimes people ask for a metadata stress test, which would
focus on mv, ln, stat, etc., more than reading/writing file data.

| I see my semi-private linux_udf@hpesjro.fc.hp.com thread titled "zeroes
| read back more often than appended" says a write-read-compare test as
| trivial as fopen-fwrite-fclose doesn't yet work.

That sounds like a filesystem IO test more than a metadata test,
though the problem could be in either area.

| I blame that either on my own bonehead newbie errors i.e. illegit test
| setup, else low-hanging bugs.  I'm hear wondering, can I easily look for
| other low-hanging fruit.

Hear?

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~Randy