On Feb 28, 2014, at 1:55 AM, John Dulaney <jdula...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

>> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:38:39 -0700
>> From: Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com>
>> To: Eric Sandeen <sand...@sandeen.net>
>> Cc: a...@lists.fedoraproject.org, Test Fedora
>> <test@lists.fedoraproject.org>, x...@oss.sgi.com
>> Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] XFS on Fedora i686, armv7hl
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 27, 2014, at 8:06 AM, Eric Sandeen <sand...@sandeen.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2/26/14, 11:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Fedora is considering XFS as their default file system. They support
>>>> three primary architectures: x86_64, i686, and armv7hl. Do XFS devs
>>>> have any reservations about XFS as a default file system on either
>>>> i686, or arm?
>>> 
>>> As Dave said, we rely on others to do ARM testing for the most part,
>>> though I've certainly jumped in and debugged some issues from time
>>> to time.
>>> 
>>> It'd be super if Fedora could run the xfstests test suite on arm
>>> as part of QE. I'd be more than happy to help get that started
>>> if people are interested.
>> 
>> I don't know that Fedora QA has the resources to do this, but I'll cc the 
>> Fedora test@ (QA) arm@ lists. If these are highly automatable tests it might 
>> be possible, if they have the hardware. More likely I think it's that we 
>> need some ARM community folks to look at splitting up some of this work.
>> 
>> I'm not sure yet what concerns the ARM group might have with XFS either as 
>> this hasn't been decided, but the Fedora Server product working group is 
>> slightly leaning toward XFS by default. Performance and CPU hit wise on 
>> x86_64, XFS seems to match up well with ext4 and maybe even a bit better 
>> ratio of throughput/CPUtime for booting workload (systemd is parallel!) so 
>> if were the same on ARM XFS could work out slightly better for them.
>> 
>> 
>> Chris Murphy
> 
> 
> Is there somewhere where the current test cases for xfs reside?

git clone git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/cmds/xfstests

> I can test on both physical arm h/w and in a virtualized environment on arm.  
> However, for
> the most part, arm32 doesn't use Anaconda; images are generated by Releng 
> with kickstarts.  
> That said, I can spin up some test images and post them if there is enough 
> interest. 



Chris Murphy

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