Re: [RFC: kdevops] Standardizing on failure rate nomenclature for expunges

[Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>]

On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 05:06:07PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> Right, but that's the personal perspective of an expert tester.  I don't
> particularly want to build that expertise myself; I want to write patches
> which touch dozens of filesystems, and I want to be able to smoke-test
> those patches.  Maybe xfstests or kdevops doesn't want to solve that
> problem,

kdevop's goals are aligned to enable that. However at this point
in time there is no agreement to share expunges and so we just
carry tons of them per kernel / distro for those that *did* have
time to run them for the environment used and share them.

Today there are baselines for stable and linus' kernel for some
filesystems, but these are on a best effort basis as this takes
system resources and someone's time. The results are tracked in:

workflows/fstests/expunges/

With time now that there is at least a rig to do this for stable
and upstream this should expand to be more up to date. There is
also a shared repo which enables folks to share results there.

  Luis