From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: [RFC] fiemap tester Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 10:14:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4A0840EF.6020601@redhat.com> References: <20090508191649.GG9068@unused.rdu.redhat.com> <20090508161318.c73d766c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090511094639.GA7488@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Josef Bacik , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:36502 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753821AbZEKPQL (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 May 2009 11:16:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090511094639.GA7488@infradead.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 04:13:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Fri, 8 May 2009 15:16:49 -0400 >> Josef Bacik wrote: >> >>> Here is small little program which I and Eric have been working on this week to >>> better test FIEMAP >> I for one wouldn't complain were someone to create >> Documentation/fs/tests/ and to then start filling it with stuff. > > Why oh why do people think Documentation/ is a good place for code? > > tests/ would be a much better place :) > > Last time I brought the idea of a small in-tree test harness up at KS > people weren't too fond of it, but if we get more backing now we could > try it, otherwise we can just stick it into xfsqa which will hopefully > soon be generalized to a general fs QA suite. FWIW, the xfsprogs test suite git tree is currently at 11M; and that's mostly just for one subtype of one subsystem. Aiming to have a full kernel test suite in the kernel tree sounds lke it could get unwieldy to me... I'll stick this new test into xfstests regardless, for now... -Eric