Omar Sandoval [off-list ref] writes:

Hi, everyone,

At LSF/MM, we talked about the need for somewhere to dump tests for the
block layer/storage stack. I've put together a test suite inspired by
xfstests here: https://github.com/osandov/blktests.

I started out with the opinion that we should reuse xfstests for this,
but it became clear that the requirements for testing block devices are
slightly different, and it diverged significantly from there. In
particular, blktests supports:

- Per-device tests. You can configure a list of test devices and the
  per-device tests will run on each one (currently in serial, we can
  support parallel runs in the future if needed).
- No-device tests. Some tests don't need to run on real hardware, and we
  can just set up a null-blk or scsi-debug device.
- Performance numbers. In addition to the output comparison pass/fail
  that xfstests supports, blktests can also report arbitrary test
  metrics which don't affect whether the test passes but can be useful
  for spotting regressions.

Cool. Thank you.
It would be nice to have hermetic kvm environment similar to
xfstests-bld [1] . I'm a volunteer to do that.

Also I'm interested in adding my t10-dif csum tests.
Is this ok to add it to separate ./tests/t10-dif group ?

Side observations:
Observation #1
I've run this on fresh fedora kernel and it hit panic on the very first tests,
which is very good sign for regression test framework.
Observation #2
It is appeared that git tree was corrupted after crash  :) Defenitely fsync is missed
somewhere in git-core, I've straced it and found 'git clone' does only
two fsync for tmp-pack-xxx files. It seems git's crash consistency is horrably broken.

Jens and I wrote up an initial set of tests, but there are a lot more we
can still write. I'm also happy to take feature requests, just email me
or open an issue on the GitHub repo.

Thanks,
Omar

Footnotes: 
[1]  https://github.com/tytso/xfstests-bld