[PATCH] selftest/s3: test with FS applicable VFS modules

David Disseldorp ddiss at suse.de
Wed Sep 18 06:10:18 CEST 2013


Hi Andrew,

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:44:46 -0700
Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> > My main motivation for the change is the ability to quickly deploy a
> > test system with Btrfs (E.g. in the build farm) and ensure that all
> > available features (compression and enhanced server-side copy) are
> > covered during selftest.  
> 
> I think I would prefer a dynamic knownfail, and always run the same
> tests, as well as running them once using the fallbacks and once using
> the fs-specific module (ie different shares). 
> 
> I'm very happy to look at and talk about things however. 

That'd significantly extend the selftest runtime, especially if all
tests were to be run under each env. Furthermore, the coverage
improvements would be minimal IMO.
I suppose it would be possible to limit the test-set to only what
is handled by the VFS module.

Cheers, David


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