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List:       ltp-list
Subject:    Re: [LTP] [TESTING] GFS2 improvements in 2.6.26
From:       Subrata Modak <subrata () linux ! vnet ! ibm ! com>
Date:       2008-08-30 18:54:56
Message-ID: 1220122480.5034.14.camel () subratamodak ! linux ! ibm ! com
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On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 14:18 +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 17:42 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
> > Hi Steven,
> > 
> > The following enhancements has been done to GFS2 in 2.6.26 release:
> > 
> > * Add extent allocation to block allocator,
> > * Allow bmap to allocate extents,
> > 
> > Could you kindly let us know whether you have some functional/regression
> > test suite for testing the GFS2 features, as well as the benchmark tests
> > you use. In such a case, would you mind sharing those test cases with
> > LTP under GPLv2 ?
> > 
> > Regards--
> > Subrata
> > http://ltp.sourceforge.net/,
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/ltp/,
> >         
> > 
> 
> Its probably best to talk to our QE people about what is currently
> available. I'm not sure that it would cover the specific cases here

Good to see that i can find out Nathan Stratz. He is one, who
administered LTP earlier.

Nathan,

What about the GFS2 tests? You would know exactly whether they can be
integrated inside LTP and to what proportion.

Regards--
Subrata

> though. To test these cases, its basically a case of testing that you
> can get back the same data written to the file in the correct order.
> 
> Something along the lines of "write some random set of files/directories
> and then umount and test with fsck" would also get you a reasonable test
> coverage of these changes,
> 
> Steve.
> 
> 


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