Re: [PATCH] xfs: limit xfs_growfs size if test with --large-fs

[Eryu Guan <guaneryu@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 11:41:50AM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 08:18:59AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 04:22:54PM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote:
> > > When test on large SCRATCH_DEV, grow a small XFS to huge size is a
> > > horrible thing (e.g grow 128m to 500T). So add a helper named
> > > _scratch_xfs_growfs_limited() to do below things:
> > > 
> > > 1) If --large-fs is used, limit growfs size.
> > > 2) If a limit size parameter is specified, make sure growfs won't
> > > beyond this size.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Zorro Lang <zlang@redhat.com>
> > 
> > I think I originally just didn't run growfs tests like this on large
> > filesystems. i.e. require_no_largefs....
> 
> Hmm... Sorry, am I facing different review-points from 3 different XFS maintainers? ...
> 
> Dave: require_no_largefs is better.
> Darrick: nearly ack this patch.
> Eric: 
> 2018-04-27 04:03 < sandeen> [15:01]  <zoro> [00:55:47] I think maybe use _require_no_large_scratch_dev for xfs/002 will be better. Grow a 128M XFS to large size is 'horrible'
> 2018-04-27 04:03 < sandeen> just limit growfs to something smaller.
> 
> What should I do next?

If testing on large device won't add more test coverage but only test
runtime, I'd like to just skip the tests.

Would you please send a new version of the patch that adds
_require_no_large_scratch_dev to the affected tests?

And thanks all for the comments!

Eryu

> 
> Thanks,
> Zorro
> 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Dave.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Dave Chinner
> > david@fromorbit.com
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