Re: [PATCH 0/7] various: test xfs things fixed in 5.10

Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-10-27T21:36:02Z

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:02:31PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here are a bunch of new tests for problems that were fixed in 5.10.
> Er.... 5.10 and 5.9. I have not been good at sending to fstests
> upstream lately. :( :(
>
> If you're going to start using this mess, you probably ought to just
> pull from my git trees, which are linked below.
>
> This is an extraordinary way to destroy everything. Enjoy!
> Comments and questions are, as always, welcome.

Hey Darrick, on a slightly different topic, you had mentioned on last
week's ext4 video chat that you had been working on some patches to
allow specific blocks to be forced to return EIO, at specific times,
to test how a file system handles errors when writing to data blocks,
metadata blocks, journal, etc.

Are there early versions of those patches available for us to play
with? I'm interesting in using that infrastructure for adding some
ext4 tests along those lines.

Thanks!!

- Ted