On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, Amir G. wrote: --snip-- > > Ted actually brought this up in our ext4 developers meeting on LSF. > He said we could register an ext4 module with the ext4dev external symbols > and it would be useful for testing, since we already have all those tools that > are aware of ext4dev. I know, but my point is still valid. why to introduce non-existing FSTYP into other tools, this is not proper course of action. If the goal is really resurrect ext4dev we should do this first. > > I am still using a more low-tech method of cloning ext4 (sed) to build > a standalone ext4dev module for testing, but it's the same principle. > > >> > >> --snip-- > >> > >> So, yes, it's true. There are other ways to accomplish what I am doing, > >> but I am going out of my way to try to make the life of developers and testers > >> easier and you are doing the exact opposite by raising objections to a rather > >> trivial and harmless patch. > > > > What is easier for testers and developers ? I fail to see the reason for > > including non-existing FSTYP into xfstests while it should be forgotten > > by now. Just provide sources with whatever fs name you choose (or just > > patches for ext4 preferably), provide patches to e2fsprogs and patches to > > xfstests if you want people to test with it. And it should be easy for every > > tester, or developer to use it, shouldn't it ? Is that a problem ? > > Yes, it is a problem. You are thinking in terms of a developer who builds > new kernels on a daily basis. > Back in the time, when I developed next3, I asked some friend and > people in the community > if they could test it. > It turned out that they don't even know how to build a kernel and they > don't want > to invest the time in doing that. > This is when I realized that to get to a wider audience of testers, I > need to make the testing > process E A S Y ! > > And by E A S Y, I mean: > 1. Take a Fedora 15 system > 2. download http://next3.sourceforge.net/files/1.0.13/ext4dev_snapshots-1.0.13-x86_64.tar.gz > 3. tar xfz ext4dev_snapshots-1.0.13-x86_64.tar.gz && cd ext4dev_snapshots-1.0.13 > 4. make && sudo make install && sudo make test So you're saying that you can not patch xfstests (and other) sources in the make time ?? Thanks! -Lukas -- 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
