Re: [PATCH 07/13] fstests: automatically generate group files

Amir Goldstein
2021-06-18T15:33:03Z

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 4:47 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 10:15:00AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > I suppose I could make the '-g' switch call 'make group.list', though
> > that's just going to increase the amount of noise for anyone like me who
> > runs fstests with a mostly readonly rootfs.
>
> Just stick to the original version and see if anyone screams loud

What is the original version?

> enough. Of course the best long-term plan would be to not even generate
> group files by just calculate the list in-memory.

Why in-memory?
check already creates $tmp.list with the list of test files right?
Any reason not to the group.list files under /tmp while preparing
the test list instead of creating them in the src directory?

Thanks,
Amir.