From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Cyril Hrubis Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:05:02 +0200 Subject: [LTP] [RFC PATCH] Delete New ext4 features tests and ffsb tool In-Reply-To: <20191024090753.16789-1-pvorel@suse.cz> References: <20191024090753.16789-1-pvorel@suse.cz> Message-ID: <20191024110502.GA27782@rei.lan> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ltp@lists.linux.it Hi! > The main reason is that these tests [1] (contributed in 2009) > are mostly outdated and irrelevant. According to Theodore Y. Tso [2] > and Jan Kara [3] the only partly valid tests are > ext4_nsec_timestamps_test.sh and ext4_subdir_limit_test.sh, > but even these would be better to migrate to xfstests, > which Yong Sun is planning to do. > > Also, some of the tests weren't in any runtest file anyway > (ext4-alloc-test.sh, ext4_inode_version_test.sh, > ext4_journal_checksum.sh, ext4_online_defrag_test.sh) > > ffsb tool was used only in these New ext4 features tests. > > [1] http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/New_ext4_features > [2] https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=157187153211649&w=2 > [3] https://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=157190318618555&w=2 > > Closes: #560 Acked. The ffsb adds quite a bit of complexity to the LTP build with a very little added value. As far as the meaningful parts of the ext4 suite would be migrated to xfstests everyone should be happy about this. -- Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz