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re[4]: Summary - Snapshot Effort

To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: re[4]: Summary - Snapshot Effort
From: Greg Freemyer <freemyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 12:28:18 -0400
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>, xfs mailing list <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: The NorcrossGroup
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>>  Answering for Eric since he is out for a few days.

 >>  Greg, take a look in cmd/xfstests there is a set of 50 or 60 tests in
 >>  there. Hopefully is is not too contorted to create a new test case.
 >>  How much of the volume setup can be done automatically by the test,
 >>  I presume all it needs is some partitions to play with.

 >>  Good idea by the way, adding test cases like this would be great.

 >>  Thanks

 >>  Steve
Steve,

I just took a look at the cmd/xfstests/README and it looks like the process is 
well documented.

I will download the whole set and first verify the test system runs on my 
system, then try to put together a new test for snapshots.

The readme talks about the user providing 2 partitions, one with xfs on it, and 
one scratch.

I assume I should use the scratch partition to build a lvm structure on, then 
format it with xfs.

One high level question, at the start of the test I assume I should check for 
the correct installation of LVM and error out if it is not available.

Is that a reasonable behavior?

Even higher level, as I have questions, should I ask them on the list, or is 
there a QA person there I should e-mail directly.

Greg
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