linux-ext4 - Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Drop ext2/ext3 codebase? When?

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Message-ID: <20110215042837.GD13052@dastard>
Date:	Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:28:37 +1100
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Michael Rubin <mrubin@...gle.com>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Drop ext2/ext3 codebase? When?

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 02:58:45PM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> -lsf-pc, -linux-fsdevel
> 
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 09:00:58PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > Yes, of course. Upgraders won't be the ones using snapshots.
> > My intension was to state that those people installing new systems to test
> > snapshots would be functioning as testers for "ext3 mode", because:
> > 1. when no snapshots exists it boils down to testing "ext3 mode".
> > 2. it is unlikely that snapshots will mask "ext3 mode" bugs.
> > 
> > So my claim is that "ext3 mode" would benefit from a transition
> > period in which snapshots and (extens,delalloc) are mutually
> > exclusive in ext4.
> 
> Here are the requirements that I think are critical before we do this:
> 
> 1) We need to solve the testing matrix problem.  Right now "ext3 mode"
> in ext4 doesn't get enough testing as it is.  Part of the solution is
> (a) deciding on the modes that need testing, and (b) writing some
> shell scripts so that xfstests can be automatically run in all of the
> right modes.  And then it will be having some number of people
> (hopefully not just me) running said tests and reporting failures.

What scripts are needed? xfstests has the $MKFS_OPTIONS and
$MOUNT_OPTIONS environment variables for customising your mkfs and
mount parameters for each test run, so isn't testing ext3
filesystems with the ext4 code should just be a matter of setting
these appropriately?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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