On 15/02/2019 03:52, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote: > Hi, Bart > > In this way, we may end up modifying probably most of the common tools, > which in long run can create a bunch of the code for the tests. If everyone > (test contributors and tools maintainers) agrees to have such a "test" mode > to all the tools, we can go for this approach. I think going the path similar to xfstests and adding filter functions to normalize the output in blktests is way less of a hassle than changing every possible tool we might want to use to have a "test" mode. Just my two cents, Johannes -- Johannes Thumshirn SUSE Labs Filesystems jthumshirn@xxxxxxx +49 911 74053 689 SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Key fingerprint = EC38 9CAB C2C4 F25D 8600 D0D0 0393 969D 2D76 0850