From: Tad Dolphay <tbd@sgi.com>
Message-Id: <200111131428.IAA24797@fsgi158.americas.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Questions on XFS Testing
To: may.xie@intel.com (Xie, May)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:28:13 -0600 (CST)
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>1. What does xfstests cover? I only see xfscrash and some other test cases, such as fsstress. Does it cover all the functionality and stress testing? I guess not.
>So what else you used for testing of the specific features for journaling file system as well as a basic file system functionality. Such as reliable fault recovery, scalibility (large file sizes, large partitions, large number of files), commit...
>

See http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/101_qa.html for a description of what testing is done.

>2. Did you do reliability testing? What test cases used for it? Where can I get them?

We use a number of open source tests including but not limited to the following:
  connectathon (connectathon.org)
  bonnie 
  Linux Test Project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ltp/)
  iozone
  lmbench (http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/get_lmbench.html)
We also use a number of tests that are not currently open source.

>3. What suggestions you can give me on my testing? Such as what kind of testing is my focus? is functional testing ( basic file system functionlity + journaling funtionality) necessary? Or do I just focus on performance and reliabilty testing or something else?

>4. Is xfs release 1.0 work with LVM?

Yes, for more information on 1.0 look at the 1.0 release announcement 
at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/mail_archive/0105/msg00001.html

>5. Do you have Regression Test System(RTS) test suite, I know it from XFS Linux Quality Assurance page. Where can I get them?

Some of these tests from RTS are included in the tests from the Linux Test Project
mentioned above.

>6. Is there any major problem with xfs release 1.0?

I know of some NFS panics that were fixed in later releases.

Tad