Bsdtar and archive torture tests
Ed Maste
emaste at phaedrus.sandvine.ca
Wed Oct 19 13:36:27 PDT 2005
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.
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Ed Maste, Sandvine Incorporated
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