Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:36:25 -0400 From: Ed Maste <emaste@phaedrus.sandvine.ca> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Bsdtar and archive torture tests Message-ID: <20051019203625.GA61355@sandvine.com> In-Reply-To: <434B098E.7070506@freebsd.org> References: <20050926195807.GD95971@sandvine.com> <17208.30606.117170.36398@khavrinen.csail.mit.edu> <20050927001650.GA9994@sandvine.com> <20050927180021.GB9994@sandvine.com> <433A2882.4030003@freebsd.org> <433A2D6E.7020205@freebsd.org> <20050928152112.GC9994@sandvine.com> <20050928214309.GA31848@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050928223927.GA11161@sandvine.com> <434B098E.7070506@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 05:38:38PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Ed, > > Have you done anything with this? I'm very interested in > getting some real regression tests imported and this seems > like a great place to start. I sent off an email to the author of the existing tests, but haven't heard anything back yet. I'll try again. > I suspect the ideal test arrangement would provide switches > to the comparison routine to omit/ignore certain files. > Then you could build a single "original", make several copies > using the above combinations, then compare while overlooking > any unsupported attributes. Sounds reasonable. In some cases we'd want to avoid archiving certain test files too; I quickly filled a disk when bsdtar tried to archive a 0.5TB sparse file. -- Ed Maste, Sandvine Incorporated
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