On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:32:37AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:39:38 -0600 Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > >> I've done some work to merge some of the existing fsx.c mods into a > >> single version. Over & above the version that is in the LTP, I've > >> included AKPM's O_DIRECT fixes (with a twist), the BSD mmap page and > >> segfault handling, and per-write fsync. > > > > It sure would be Good if fsx-linux had a fixed, known home, instead of > > having to look at Andrew's ext3-tools, Dave's codemonkey files, > > LTP, linux-fsdevel mailing list, etc. > > > > Is there a linux-fs-tests package somewhere? (like where the xfstests > > are being merged into) > > Well, I think Andreas' idea was to make LTP the official home for now > which is why I was going to send it here ... > > But I don't think xfstests is being merged into anything at the moment; > if anything, we're working to make it a more generic suite of tests (it > can run about 50 tests on generic posix filesystems by now). I'd love to see a tests/ directory shipped with the kernel. It's been talked about for about several years and still hasn't happened. Is it just because no-one has stepped up to do it ? I would be happy to manage a git tree for marshalling stuff on its way to Linus if that's all that's holding this idea back. Of course if there are other objections.. Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
