linux-ext4 - Re: Separate mailing list for xfstests

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Message-ID: <20140514165048.GA20454@boyd>
Date:	Wed, 14 May 2014 11:50:49 -0500
From:	Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@...onical.com>
To:	tytso@....edu
Cc:	Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>,
	dchinner@...hat.com, xfs@....sgi.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Separate mailing list for xfstests

On 2014-05-14 16:04:47, tytso@....edu wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:02:47AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> > >> linux-fsdevel might seem as a good candidate for it, but still I
> > >> think that it deserves a separate ML to point people to.
> 
> I'm personally in favor of using linux-fsdevel since it might
> encourage more fs developers who aren't using xfstests yet to start
> using it.
> 
> For example, we started investigating using xfstests to test unionfs,
> and pretty quickly found problems.  (I suspect the same problem exists
> in AUFS, BTW, but I've been focusing on unionfs because it's simpler
> and less scary.)  The patches to enable the use of xfstests to test
> unionfs are still pretty rough, but hopefully we'll get those sent to
> Dave once they are cleaned up a bit.

Oh, that sounds interesting. I haven't seen these patches, but I expect
they would be pretty easy for me to extend for testing eCryptfs. That
has been on my todo list for a long time but I haven't spent much time
working on eCryptfs lately.

BTW, you can use this email as a supporting data point for your first
paragraph. :)

Tyler

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