As I had mentioned during the LSF/MM workshop, I have an automated infrastructure which allows me to boot a kernel out of my build tree, and run xfstests under a variety of ext4 file system configurations (i.e., with a 4k block size, 1k block size, in no-journal mode, etc., etc.) Once I've built a kernel, all I need to run is "kvm-xfstests smoke" or "kvm-xfstests full" and the test infrastructure takes care of the rest! The smoke test takes about 30 minutes, while the full set of tests takes around 16-18 hours. The git tree where this can be found is here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/xfstests-bld.git Previously, "some assembly was required", but I've automated the construction of the kvm test appliance image so it's now much easier to get things set up. It does require a Debian system to built the virtual root file system (or you can download the pre-built KVM image if you are using some other distro and drop it into the kvm-xfststs/test-appliance directory). Give it a try and let me know what you think! If you are intersted in adding support so this infrastructure can be used for other file systems as well, feel free to send me patches. For more information, please see: * https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/xfstests-bld.git/tree/README * https://git.kernel.org/cgit/fs/ext2/xfstests-bld.git/tree/kvm-xfstests/README * https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/kvm-xfstests/README -- 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
