From: Rich Johnston <rjohnston@sgi.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] xfstests: enable large fs testing on ext4
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:27:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50477D60.8000604@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1343291989-14987-9-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com>
On 07/26/2012 03:39 AM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>
> Now that setting up large filesystem testing on sparse loopback
> devices uses a generic method for filling the filesystem, extent
> support to ext4 filesystems.
>
> ext4 is slightly more complex to fill as it does not support files
> larger than 16TB. Hence a slightly more complex method of using
> multiple smaller files to fill the space is necessary.
>
> WARNING: be prepeared for ext4 to take forever to prepare large
> filesystems as allocation of large amounts of space (especially as
> it approaches ENOSPC) is can take minutes rather than milliseconds
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
> ---
> common.rc | 90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+)
>
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: Rich Johnston <rjohnston@sgi.com>
Regards
--Rich
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-07-26 8:39 ` [PATCH 0/10] xfstests: rework large filesystem testing Dave Chinner
2012-07-26 8:39 ` [PATCH 01/10] xfstests: add --largefs check option Dave Chinner
2012-08-28 14:00 ` Rich Johnston
2012-08-28 19:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-26 8:39 ` [PATCH 02/10] xfstests: rename USE_BIG_LOOPFS to be more generic Dave Chinner
2012-08-28 14:01 ` Rich Johnston
2012-08-31 23:30 ` Dave Chinner
2012-08-28 19:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-26 8:39 ` [PATCH 03/10] xfstests: rename RETAIN_AG_BYTES Dave Chinner
2012-08-28 14:01 ` Rich Johnston
2012-08-28 19:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-26 8:39 ` [PATCH 04/10] xfstests: use preallocation for ag-wiper Dave Chinner
2012-08-28 14:02 ` Rich Johnston
2012-08-28 19:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-26 8:39 ` [PATCH 05/10] xfstests: use command line option for setting extra space Dave Chinner
2012-08-28 14:02 ` Rich Johnston
2012-08-28 19:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-26 8:39 ` [PATCH 06/10] xfstest: enable xfs_repair for large filesystem testing Dave Chinner
2012-08-28 14:02 ` Rich Johnston
2012-08-28 19:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-26 8:39 ` [PATCH 07/10] xfstests: always us test option when checking large scratch device Dave Chinner
2012-07-26 17:21 ` Paulo Alcantara
2012-08-28 14:02 ` Rich Johnston
2012-08-28 19:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-26 8:39 ` [PATCH 08/10] xfstests: enable large fs testing on ext4 Dave Chinner
2012-08-28 20:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-09-05 16:27 ` Rich Johnston [this message]
2012-07-26 8:39 ` [PATCH 09/10] xfstests: disable tests that typically fail on large filesystems Dave Chinner
2012-08-28 14:03 ` Rich Johnston
2012-08-28 20:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-26 8:39 ` [PATCH 10/10] xfstests: exclude largefs fill files from dump tests Dave Chinner
2012-08-28 14:03 ` Rich Johnston
2012-08-28 20:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-08-14 21:40 ` [PATCH 0/10] xfstests: rework large filesystem testing Dave Chinner
2012-09-05 21:34 ` [PATCH 11/10] xfstests: rework large filesystem testing - add golden output Ben Myers
2012-09-05 22:26 ` Dave Chinner
2012-09-06 12:57 ` Rich Johnston
2012-09-06 23:07 ` Dave Chinner
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