linux-ext4 - Re: is there root_fs.arm32 used by xfstests?

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Date:   Thu, 19 Mar 2020 09:34:03 +0800
From:   xiaohui li <lixiaohui1@...omi.corp-partner.google.com>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: is there root_fs.arm32 used by xfstests?

oh, thank you.
I will try it as what you say.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:28 AM Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:16:32AM +0800, xiaohui li wrote:
> > hello ted:
> >
> > many thanks for your xfstests-bld project which can be deployed on
> > android systems and make mobile phone more robust and stable.
> > but as is known, many low-end mobile phone’s cpu still use the arm32
> > architecture.
> > and if these low-end mobile phone also can make full use of xfstests
> > to do fs tests,
> > there will be more fs bug will be found and our filesystem will become
> > more robust.
> >
> > but from below link:
> > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/kvm-xfstests
> > there is not arm32 root_fs.
> >
> > so if you or anyone can offer me a link which can download arm32
> > root_fs needed by xfstests，
> > i appreciate it very much.
> >
> > best regards.
>
> Great to hear that you're interested in running xfstests on Android!  Probably
> Ted stopped providing an arm32 root_fs because arm64 is much more common now.
> It should be pretty straightforward to build an arm32 root_fs.tar yourself,
> though; have you checked the documentation in
> https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld/blob/master/Documentation/building-rootfs.md
> ?
>
> It should just require:
>
>         sudo ./setup-buildchroot --arch=armhf
>         ./do-all --chroot=buster-armhf --out-tar
>
> I haven't done it in a while so I can't guarantee it hasn't gone stale, but it's
> supposed to work.
>
> - Eric