[ANNOUNCE] xfstests: new mailing list

Sedat Dilek sedat.dilek at gmail.com
Fri May 16 03:55:52 CDT 2014


On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Lukáš Czerner <lczerner at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2014, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
>> Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 22:40:09 -0700
>> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>
>> To: Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com>
>> Cc: fstests at vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org,
>>     linux-ext4 at vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs at vger.kernel.org, xfs at oss.sgi.com
>> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] xfstests: new mailing list
>>
>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 02:46:11PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > As requested I've created a new mailing list for xfstests
>> > development and discussion. Reflecting the fact that the test
>> > harness is not really XFS specific anymore, the list is:
>> >
>> >     fstests at vger.kernel.org
>>
>> Isn't there an "x" missing somewhere?
>
> It's intentional and it is "Reflecting the fact that the test
> harness is not really XFS specific anymore", even though the test
> suite itself keep the name xfstests.
>
> This way it's more obvious to people that this is in fact not xfs
> specific.
>

Why not eliminate the "x" entirely?
In my testings, I used xfstests-suite for testing Ext4-FS.
(My intention is not to hurt any XFS developers...).

- Sedat -



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