Re: [Lsf] [PATCH] xfstests-bld: Simplify determination of number of CPUs in build-all

Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-03T19:30:48Z

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:06:40PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 4/3/14, 11:35 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>
> >> - There's an undocumented way to write results outside the source
> >> tree called RESULT_BASE. It would be great if it were documented and
> >> spelled consistently.
>
> I'm not actually certain that it was intended to be used this way.
> See 1686f9ab "xfstests: Introduce a results directory"
> which explains just where this variable came from and what it's
> for...

The last paragraph states of the git description states:

This is the first (small) step in being able to store test results
in an external location for archival/data mining purposes.

The question I suppose is whether storing the results in an external
location is something that should be xfstests' responsibility, or of
the test harnesses that call xfstests. I suspect that since there are
so many different ways people might want to archive the results, it
does make sense for the test harnesses to handle this job, but I
wouldn't want to "presume" on anything that the xfstests developers
might choose to do....

- Ted