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From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [RFC PATCH] Delete New ext4 features tests and ffsb tool
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:26:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191024122610.GA7865@dell5510> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191024110502.GA27782@rei.lan>

Hi Cyril,

> 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 are mostly outdated and irrelevant.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.
Thanks for ack, merged.

Kind regards,
Petr

      reply	other threads:[~2019-10-24 12:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-24  9:07 [LTP] [RFC PATCH] Delete New ext4 features tests and ffsb tool Petr Vorel
2019-10-24 11:05 ` Cyril Hrubis
2019-10-24 12:26   ` Petr Vorel [this message]

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