On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 09:43:33AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 01:25:00PM +0300, Ari Sundholm wrote: > > From: Ari Sundholm <[email protected]> > > > > There are filesystems that do not support hard links that we want to run > > xfstests on. Add a function for checking for support and use it wherever > > hard links are used. > > As I've already pointed out, all of the filesystems that xfstests > supports have working hardlinks, so this is a test that will never > fail for anyone running xfstests on supported filesystems. > > Also, I'm left to wonder what kernel filesystem supports > journaling but does not support hardlinks (as noted by the number of > tests you change that have "_require_metadata_journaling"). Why > aren't you also posting the patches to support the filesystem that > requires this "don't use hardlinks" patch?
Just to clarify this: I don't care if people are using xfstests to test proprietary filesystem modules. I'm happy to add proper support for just about any filesystem, but that support needs to be *in full* so *anyone* can run the tests on that filesystem. What I really don't like is people being evasive about the reason they want something changed. If there isn't a clear, full and convincing explanation of why a change should be made, then I will push back until such an explanation is given. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe fstests" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
