From: Brad Figg <brad.figg@canonical.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu Ext4 regression testing
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:15:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5051177E.6000903@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5051142D.1050603@redhat.com>
On 09/12/2012 04:01 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Hi Brad -
>
> (cc: xfs list too)
>
> On 9/12/12 5:52 PM, Brad Figg wrote:
>>
>> The Ubuntu kernel team has been putting some automated testing
>> infrastructure in place. We are very interested in engaging with
>> the appropriate upstream developers. We have been running the
>> xfstests that come as part of the autotest testing framework.
>> Some of these tests fail or never complete when run against an
>> Ext4 file-system.
>
> Which ones? Feel free to file bugs or send mail. Tests should pass.
> Sometimes it's a test bug, though, of course ;)
>
>> Our initial questions are:
>>
>> 1. Is this an appropriate set of tests to be run as regression
>> tests?
>
> Yes, that's what it's for!
>
>> 2. Is there a list of the xfstests that are appropriate for
>> Ext4?
>
> Any test which says
>
> _supported_fs generic
> or
> _supported_fs ext4
>
> can run on ext4, and should in theory pass. I think there are
> about 100 of them by now.
>
> There is a "dangerous" group (see groups file) which contains test nrs that
> might stop testing via a hang or panic. But don't skip those by
> default; newer kernels with those bugs fixed _should_ pass them too.
>
>> 3. Are there additional regression tests that would be beneficial
>> to the Linux community for us to be running?
>
> We've been encouraging new tests to be written for xfstests lately,
> and it's gotten a good amount of traction. There certainly may be
> other things out there, though.
>
> -Eric
>
>
>> Test results can be found at:
>> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/testing/index.html
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Brad
>>
>
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I'm going to be doing some new runs so anything I find will be reported.
Thanks,
Brad
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2012-09-12 23:01 ` Ubuntu Ext4 regression testing Eric Sandeen
2012-09-12 23:15 ` Brad Figg [this message]
2012-09-13 0:20 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-09-13 0:41 ` Brad Figg
2012-09-13 1:51 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-09-13 2:04 ` Brad Figg
2012-09-13 2:09 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-09-13 2:17 ` Brad Figg
2012-09-13 2:24 ` Theodore Ts'o
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