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Message-ID: <20100130191113.GC10181@infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:11:13 -0500
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
Cc: tytso@....edu, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
xfs-oss <xfs@....sgi.com>, Giel de Nijs <giel@...torwise.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests 224: test aio hole-fill at 4g
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:31:26PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> These are the deps that I know xfstests has, to build and to run:
>
> BuildRequires: autoconf, libtool, xfsprogs-devel, e2fsprogs-devel
> BuildRequires: libacl-devel, libattr-devel, libaio-devel
>
> Requires: bash, xfsprogs, xfsdump, perl, acl, attr, bind-utils
> Requires: bc, indent, quota
>
> which isn't so bad...
Doesn't seem to bad. Indent is afaik only needed for the weird 122 test
which doesn't apply to non-xfs filesystems.
> I'm not sure an xfsprogs dependency is so onerous; plenty has depended
> on e2fsprogs through the years and we've lived with that ;) But
> the lag time for xfsprogs to use released xfs_io functionality is a
> bit of a bummer.
>
> But I guess I don't have a great answer for who else uses xfs_io:
I use xfs_io in lots various local scripts. It's a really handly
tool for exercising some of the more weird I/O related syscalls.
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