linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] fiemap tester

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Message-ID: <4A0840EF.6020601@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 May 2009 10:14:55 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@...hat.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] fiemap tester

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 04:13:18PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Fri, 8 May 2009 15:16:49 -0400
>> Josef Bacik <josef@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Here is small little program which I and Eric have been working on this week to
>>> better test FIEMAP
>> I for one wouldn't complain were someone to create
>> Documentation/fs/tests/ and to then start filling it with stuff.
> 
> Why oh why do people think Documentation/ is a good place for code?
> 
> tests/ would be a much better place :)
> 
> Last time I brought the idea of a small in-tree test harness up at KS
> people weren't too fond of it, but if we get more backing now we could
> try it, otherwise we can just stick it into xfsqa which will hopefully
> soon be generalized to a general fs QA suite.

FWIW, the xfsprogs test suite git tree is currently at 11M; and that's
mostly just for one subtype of one subsystem.  Aiming to have a full
kernel test suite in the kernel tree sounds lke it could get unwieldy to
me...

I'll stick this new test into xfstests regardless, for now...

-Eric
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