[Ocfs2-test-devel] Hello, any suggestion and update for ocfs2-test?

[Eric Ren]

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Hello Junxiao,

Did you receive this thread [1] I sent last month?

I am working on putting ocfs2 test in control of Jenkins nowadays. So, I'd like to shorten
the time of one test round. There are 3 ways I can think of:

1. tell ocfs2-test a specified list of testcases to run

This has been achieved by your patch introducing "-t" option. However, this option can only 
specify one case at a time, making the log of test results distributed among many 
directories. That's inconvenient to get a whole picture of the result at a glance;-)

2. eliminating 2-layer loop for blocksize and clustersize by introducing "-b" (blocksize) 
and "-c" (clustersize) options so that we can loop different blocksize and clustersize 
outside of ocfs2-test

This 2 patches [2][3] are for it.

3. different combinations of features and options for mkfs and mount operations, like
"inline, sparse, unwritten, ...", and "journal={data | order| writeback}" etc

I intend to untouch this for now. Maybe a global configuration file can be introduced to 
save different combinations for different test cases in the future. Thus, make it more 
configurable in a common file;-)

[1] https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-test-devel/2016-June/000849.html
[2] https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-test-devel/2016-June/000850.html
[3] https://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-test-devel/2016-June/000851.html

Could you help review those fixes? Thus, I can push the fixes with a "reviewed-by" to
upstream, and improve/resend the others.

BTW, any update for ocfs2-test from your side? I'd be very appreciated to see them;-)

Regards,
Eric