From: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
To: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: [LTP] [PATCH] Use fallocate() to create loop device backing file
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 03:46:58 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <270712218.1348506.1594280818466.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200702141503.2556-1-mdoucha@suse.cz>
----- Original Message -----
> Creating large loop device backing files using tst_fill_file() on shared
> testing machines may lead to performance issues and timeouts. Preallocating
> space using fallocate() is fast and sufficient.
>
> Space allocation will fall back to tst_fill_file() if fallocate() fails for
> any
> other reason than lack of space.
>
> Signed-off-by: Martin Doucha <mdoucha@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-09 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-02 14:15 [LTP] [PATCH] Use fallocate() to create loop device backing file Martin Doucha
2020-07-09 7:46 ` Jan Stancek [this message]
2020-07-09 9:21 ` Cyril Hrubis
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