From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 19 20:36:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE1DE16A420; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:36:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from emaste@phaedrus.sandvine.ca) Received: from mailserver.sandvine.com (sandvine.com [199.243.201.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E7E243D64; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:36:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from emaste@phaedrus.sandvine.ca) Received: from labgw2.phaedrus.sandvine.com ([192.168.3.11]) by mailserver.sandvine.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:36:07 -0400 Received: by labgw2.phaedrus.sandvine.com (Postfix, from userid 12627) id E95B31363D; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:36:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:36:25 -0400 From: Ed Maste To: Tim Kientzle Message-ID: <20051019203625.GA61355@sandvine.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <434B098E.7070506@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Oct 2005 20:36:07.0953 (UTC) FILETIME=[BBE34010:01C5D4EC] Cc: Garrett Wollman , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Bsdtar and archive torture tests X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 20:36:27 -0000 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