Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:36:57 -0400 | From | Peter Hurley <> | Subject | Re: Work Queue for btrfs compression writes |
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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
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