linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4/004: add dump/restore test

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Message-ID: <54850290.2070201@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 8 Dec 2014 09:44:48 +0800
From:	Xiaoguang Wang <wangxg.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
CC:	<fstests@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4/004: add dump/restore test

Hi,

On 12/07/2014 05:40 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 06:21:09PM +0800, Xiaoguang Wang wrote:
>> This test case will first use fsstress to fill a file system, then
>> dump it to standard output and restore it from standard input, finally
>> check that the original contents and the new contents generated by
>> restore tool will be same.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Xiaoguang Wang <wangxg.fnst@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> One question --- what is the intent of this test?  Is it to test the
> kernel, or the dump/restore program?  I have not bothered putting
> regression tests for e2fsprogs in xfstests, because if I'm developing
> e2fsprogs, it actually makes much more sense to put the regression
> tests in the e2fsprogs git tree.

Yeah, my intent is to test dump/restore program, and indeed I imitate that
how xfs to test xfsdump/xfsrestore, xfs puts xfsdump/xfsrestore tests in
corresponding xfs directory.

Regards,
Xiaoguang Wang


> 
> If this is because it's more convenient to put this in xfsprogs
> because it has fsstress, maybe we should adjust the groups that it is
> in so that it's not in auto or quick, but some other group?  Or add it
> to some group like "userspace" so I can exclude it when I'm mostly
> interested in testing development kernels?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 						- Ted
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