Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfstests: new mailing list

Sedat Dilek
2014-05-16T08:55:54Z

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2014, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 22:40:09 -0700
>> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
>> To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
>> Cc: fstests@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
>> linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
>> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfstests: new mailing list
>>
>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 02:46:11PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > As requested I've created a new mailing list for xfstests
>> > development and discussion. Reflecting the fact that the test
>> > harness is not really XFS specific anymore, the list is:
>> >
>> > fstests@vger.kernel.org
>>
>> Isn't there an "x" missing somewhere?
>
> It's intentional and it is "Reflecting the fact that the test
> harness is not really XFS specific anymore", even though the test
> suite itself keep the name xfstests.
>
> This way it's more obvious to people that this is in fact not xfs
> specific.
>

Why not eliminate the "x" entirely?
In my testings, I used xfstests-suite for testing Ext4-FS.
(My intention is not to hurt any XFS developers...).

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