[fedora-arm] XFS on Fedora i686, armv7hl

[Chris Murphy]

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

>> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:38:39 -0700
>> From: Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com>
>> To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net>
>> Cc: arm at lists.fedoraproject.org, Test Fedora
>> <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>, xfs at oss.sgi.com
>> Subject: Re: [fedora-arm] XFS on Fedora i686, armv7hl
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 27, 2014, at 8:06 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen at 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