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From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
To: Chaitanya Kulkarni <Chaitanya.Kulkarni@wdc.com>,
	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>,
	"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org" 
	<lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-block@vger.kernel.org" <linux-block@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] improving storage testing
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 08:52:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d65a562b-b7ef-6342-8cc6-e5ef42c503f3@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BYAPR04MB4502D20C28D486AB49CFAE0A86600@BYAPR04MB4502.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>

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
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-02-15  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-13 18:07 [LSF/MM TOPIC] improving storage testing Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-02-14  7:37 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2019-02-14 10:55 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2019-02-14 16:21   ` David Sterba
2019-02-14 23:26   ` Bart Van Assche
2019-02-15  2:52     ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2019-02-15  7:52       ` Johannes Thumshirn [this message]
2019-02-14 12:10 ` Lukas Czerner
2019-02-14 21:28   ` Omar Sandoval
2019-02-14 21:56 ` Omar Sandoval
2019-02-15  3:02   ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-02-15 17:32     ` Keith Busch
2019-02-20  1:33       ` Chaitanya Kulkarni

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