Re: reiserfs broken in 2.6.32 was Re: [GIT PULL] reiserfs fixes

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 04:01:01PM -0500, tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 09:11:39PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > 
> > I've never lost any datas since I began this work. And
> > I run it every day. If I had experienced lock inversions,
> > and sometimes soft lockups, I did not experienced serious
> > damages. It's a journalized filesystem that can fixup the things
> > pretty well.
> 
> Have you tried using the xfsqa regression test suite?  Despite the
> name, it will work on non-xfs filesystems (although there are some
> XFS-specific tests in the test suite.)  Both the btrfs and ext4
> developers use it to debug their file systems, and it's a good way of
> stressing the file system in all sorts of different ways that might
> not be seen during normal desktop usage.  I suspect it would be a good
> way of flushing out potential problems for reiserfs as well.
> 
> Regards,


Thanks! I'm going to test it now. I've been running a stress test
from Chris Mason which basically checks races on parallel writes/read.

If this testsuite includes more checks, like xattr and some other
things, then that's exactly what I was searching.

I guess this is the right place to get it?

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfstests-dev.git

Thanks.