On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:55:07AM +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 01:07:54PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > 2) Documenting what are known failures should be for various tests on > > different file systems and kernel versions. I think we all have our > > own way of excluding tests which are known to fail. One extreme case > > is where the test case was added to xfstests (generic/484), but the > > patch to fix it got hung up because it was somewhat controversial, so > > it was failing on all file systems. > > How about having a wiki page, either in the respective filesystems wiki or a > common wiki, that show's the list of test that are expected to fail for kernel > version X? > > This is something I'm desperately looking for for brtfs for example. https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Development_notes#.28x.29fstests Feel free to add what you're missing to that page. Though I'm not sure wiki is the best way to track such information, but it can be a start. Without people regularly checking that the information is accurate, it will be obsolete and fallback to own scripts and exclusion lists would happen.
