Hi, everyone, At LSF/MM, we talked about the need for somewhere to dump tests for the block layer/storage stack. I've put together a test suite inspired by xfstests here: https://github.com/osandov/blktests. I started out with the opinion that we should reuse xfstests for this, but it became clear that the requirements for testing block devices are slightly different, and it diverged significantly from there. In particular, blktests supports: - Per-device tests. You can configure a list of test devices and the per-device tests will run on each one (currently in serial, we can support parallel runs in the future if needed). - No-device tests. Some tests don't need to run on real hardware, and we can just set up a null-blk or scsi-debug device. - Performance numbers. In addition to the output comparison pass/fail that xfstests supports, blktests can also report arbitrary test metrics which don't affect whether the test passes but can be useful for spotting regressions. Jens and I wrote up an initial set of tests, but there are a lot more we can still write. I'm also happy to take feature requests, just email me or open an issue on the GitHub repo. Thanks, Omar
