[PATCH v2] README: add supported fs list

Zorro Lang
2025-03-28T16:46:13Z

To clarify the supported filesystems by fstests, add a fs list to
README file.

Signed-off-by: Zorro Lang <zlang@kernel.org>
Acked-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
---

The v1 patch and review points:
https://lore.kernel.org/fstests/20250227200514.4085734-1-zlang@kernel.org/

V2 did below things:
1) Fix some wrong english sentences
2) Explain the meaning of "+" and "-".
3) Add a link to btrfs comment.
4) Split ext2/3/4 to 3 lines.
5) Reorder the fs list by "Level".

Thanks,
Zorro

README | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 90 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README b/README
index 024d39531..5ceaa0c1e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,3 +1,93 @@
+_______________________
+SUPPORTED FS LIST
+_______________________
+
+History
+-------
+
+Firstly, xfstests is the old name of this project, due to it was originally
+developed for testing the XFS file system on the SGI's Irix operating system.
+When xfs was ported to Linux, so was xfstests, now it only supports Linux.
+
+As xfstests has many test cases that can be run on some other filesystems,
+we call them "generic" (and "shared", but it has been removed) cases, you
+can find them in tests/generic/ directory. Then more and more filesystems
+started to use xfstests, and contribute patches. Today xfstests is used
+as a file system regression test suite for lots of Linux's major file systems.
+So it's not "xfs"tests only, we tend to call it "fstests" now.
+
+Supported fs
+------------
+
+Firstly, there's not hard restriction about which filesystem can use fstests.
+Any filesystem can give fstests a try.
+
+Although fstests supports many filesystems, they have different support level
+by fstests. So mark it with 4 levels as below:
+
+L1: Fstests can be run on the specified fs basically.
+L2: Rare support from the specified fs list to fix some generic test failures.
+L3: Normal support from the specified fs list, has some own cases.
+L4: Active support from the fs list, has lots of own cases.
+
+("+" means a slightly higher than the current level, but not reach to the next.
+"-" is opposite, means a little bit lower than the current level.)
+
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| Filesystem | Level | Comment |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| XFS | L4+ | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| Btrfs | L4 | https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/Development-\|
+| | | notes.html#fstests-setup |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| Ext4 | L4 | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| Ext2 | L3 | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| Ext3 | L3 | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| overlay | L3 | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| f2fs | L3- | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| tmpfs | L3- | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| NFS | L2+ | https://linux-nfs.org/wiki/index.php/Xfstests |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| Ceph | L2 | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| CIFS | L2- | https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Xfstesting-cifs |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| ocfs2 | L2- | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| Bcachefs | L1+ | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| Exfat | L1+ | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| AFS | L1 | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| FUSE | L1 | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| GFS2 | L1 | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| Glusterfs | L1 | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| JFS | L1 | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| pvfs2 | L1 | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| Reiser4 | L1 | Reiserfs has been removed, only left reiser4 |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| ubifs | L1 | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| udf | L1 | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| Virtiofs | L1 | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+| 9p | L1 | N/A |
++------------+-------+---------------------------------------------------------+
+
_______________________
BUILDING THE FSQA SUITE
_______________________
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