> I'm thinking of using fuse to build a test harness for YAFFS and > thought I'd ask opinions before I went ahead. > > YAFFS is pretty modular in that the OS-specific functions (VFS and > mtd interfacing) can be unplugged and replaced with other > functions. This allows the core "guts" to be built and tested in > application space. > > The pain with doing the testing in an application is that writing > test code etc takes a long time. I'd rather be able to do testing > interactively from bash etc, which leads to the idea of running > YAFFS as a fuse application. > > Any comments as to the sanity of this approach? > > Can you do things like single step a fuse application without > breaking the kernel? Of course. Another approach is to use UML, which gives a similar debugging environment but without having to port your filesystem to userspace. Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
