[LTP] [RFC PATCH] Delete New ext4 features tests and ffsb tool

Cyril Hrubis
2019-10-24T11:05:02Z

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 are mostly outdated and irrelevant.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.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz