On 07/30/2014 10:13 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:38:21AM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote: >> qemu/kvm is good for this, because it has a mode >> that bypasses the BIOS and bootloader emulation, and just directly >> runs a kernel from a file on the host machine. This is fast. You can >> pass large sparse files to the VM to act as scratch disks, plus keep >> another smaller file for the guest OS (and a copy of it so that you >> can throw one away and make another one quickly and easily). > > Nick, > > The xfstests-bld/kvm-xfstests git tree I pointed out to you has an > example of a test infrastructure which does this for ext4. It's been > on my todo list to support other file systems, and I have some plans > for how to do thi, but it's been low on my priority list. If someone > in the btrfs development community is interested in working with me on > this, they should contact me.
Ted, Where is that git tree? I've been planning to set up a unit test and regression suite for tty/serial, and wouldn't mind cribbing the infrastructure from someone's existing work. Regards, Peter Hurley -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/