Re: [ANNOUNCE] Reiserfs/kill-bkl tree v2

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 04:21:00PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > e.g. running all the file system stress tests from LTP would be 
> > > a good idea, ideally multiple at a time on a multi processor 
> > > system on a ram disk or perhaps AIM9.
> > 
> > Yeah good idea. But again, I fear my laptop hasn't enough memory 
> > to support big enough ramdisks mount points to host selftests.
> 
> Well, dont waste too much time on it (beyond the due diligence 
> level) - Andi forgot that the right way to stress-test patches is to 
> get through the review process and then through the integration 
> trees which have far more test exposure than any single contributor 
> can test.
> 
> Patch submitters cannot possibly test every crazy possibility that 
> is out there - nor should they: it just doesnt scale. What we expect 
> people to do is to write clean patches, to test the bits on their 
> own boxes and submit them to lkml and address specific review 
> feedback.
> 
> 	Ingo

Yeah, I know that doesn't scale. But I really would like to test it, at
least with the minimum scope I have.
Such fundamental change in a filesystem is scary :)