On 27/07/16 14:23, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:45:36PM +0100, Luis de Bethencourt wrote: >> Support for BeFS in Linux is read-only. So there are no tools to create >> BeFS file systems. I have a bunch of BeFS images created from Haiku OS >> that cover most things. > > Ah, well, pretty much all of the xfstests assume the ability to write > into the file system. So it may be a while before using xfstests will > make sense for BeFS. > >> There is no reason a consistency check tool can't be written. I think this >> could be a fun exercise, I am tempted to add it to my task list :) >> However this tool can only inform if the file system is consistent, and not >> really fix it. Similar to "e2fsck -n". > > That's all which is necessary for xfstests --- the idea is that the > test will make various changes to the file system, and then > correctness is checked both by whether the expected output is printed > as the test probes changed the file system state, and by the > consistency checker confirming that the file system is in a consistent > sane state after each test completes. > Right. It will still be valuable for me to run xfstests for ext4 and btrfs. Thanks for the advice. >> Salah told me he is planning to slowly work on adding read support in the >> future. But don't want to make any promises/plans on his behalf. > > I assume you mean write support in the above paragraph. :-) > You assume correctly :) Sorry for the typo. > Cheers, > > - Ted > Thanks, Luis -- 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
