On 15.4.2022 7.22, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 02:42:18AM +0300, Kari Argillander wrote:
Add ntfs3 kernel configs and disable tests which hangs at the moment.
Kari Argillander (2):
test-appliance: Add exclude file for ntfs3
kernel-configs: add ntfs3 to current 5.15 configs
Note that upstream fstests does *not* have support for ntfs3 at the
moment. I have some admittedly very hacky patches in my personal fork
of xfstests on github, but they use a mix of userspace tools that are
specific for other ntfs file system drivers, since last I checked,
Paragon software has not made open source file system utilities for
ntfs3 available.
Yes I'm fully aware of situation. I just try to make situation little
bit better and have to start somewhere. Hopefully someone other will
also start gain interest developing this if tools are easier to use.
The support of ntfs3 in {kvm,gce}-xfstests was experimental in nature
when I was trying to make an assessment about whether ntfs3 was ready
for prime time. So don't mind applying these patches, but I'm
currently no longer regularly running ntfs3 test runs, and I'm very
much aware that the current ntfs3 support that I had added a while
back into xfstests is definitely not polished or ready for the fstests
maintainer to consider accepting.
I also planning to do better Xfstests support for ntfs3. Your tool at
the moment is still only way testing it for new developers so I just
want it to be little bit easier. I do not except you to run ntfs3. I
also know about your previes patch. I will polish that to be usable.
I have also made ntfs3 support for Syzkaller and my patch will probably
be merged this week. It means next week there will probably start coming
some bug reports from there too. Local Syzkaller run against ntfs3 does
not see very promising and there will be some bugs. But hey testing
helps as we see how buggy things are.
Thing is that Konstantin (ntfs3 maintainer) has kept totally radio
silence after 5.15 was released. I will make own thread about it soon as
ntfs3 is orphan already. But that will need definitely own thread.
Argillander
Cheers,
- Ted
