From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: fstests@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, wangxg.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com,
eguan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: speed up _require_ext4_bigalloc and _require_ext4_mkfs_bigalloc
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 08:02:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140908120213.GF1066@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140908095000.GD30012@dastard>
On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 07:50:00PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 10:06:08PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > We don't need to make a full-sized file system in order to test
> > whether "mkfs.ext4 -O bigalloc" works.
>
> Why wouldn't you just use the "-n" option? If bigalloc is not
> supported, that should still fail, right?
Good point. We still need to make the file system for
_require_ext4_bigalloc, but there's no need to create one for
_require_ext4_mkfs_bigalloc.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-08 12:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-07 12:29 [PATCH] ext4: use mkfs.ext4 -F instead of piping in yes Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-07 15:49 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-07 19:21 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-08 2:06 ` [PATCH 1/2] ext4: define MKFS_EXT4_PROG and use it instead of "mkfs.ext4" / "mkfs -t ext4" Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-08 2:06 ` [PATCH 2/2] ext4: speed up _require_ext4_bigalloc and _require_ext4_mkfs_bigalloc Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-08 9:50 ` Dave Chinner
2014-09-08 12:02 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2014-09-08 12:15 ` [PATCH -v2] " Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-08 12:36 ` Dave Chinner
2014-09-08 12:39 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-08 12:50 ` Dave Chinner
2014-09-08 12:35 ` [PATCH 1/2] ext4: define MKFS_EXT4_PROG and use it instead of "mkfs.ext4" / "mkfs -t ext4" Dave Chinner
2014-09-27 0:11 ` Dave Chinner
2014-09-27 22:12 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-27 22:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] " Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-27 22:17 ` [PATCH 2/3] ext4: use mkfs.ext4 -F instead of piping in yes Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-27 22:17 ` [PATCH 3/3] ext4: speed up _require_ext4_bigalloc and _require_ext4_mkfs_bigalloc Theodore Ts'o
2014-09-09 11:49 ` [PATCH] ext4: use mkfs.ext4 -F instead of piping in yes Eryu Guan
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