Re: [PATCH v3] btrfs: Test proper interaction between skip_balance and paused balance

Nikolay Borisov
2021-11-10T10:07:40Z

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>> +# titled "btrfs: allow device add if balance is paused"
>
> It is a new feature, not a bug fix? The kernel patch won't backport to
> the stable kernels. Then on older kernels, this test has to exit with
> _notrun().
> Is there any way to achieve this? There isn't any sysfs interface that
> will help and, so far we haven't used the kernel version to achieve
> something like this.
>

No, and this is outside the remit of xfstest. Anyone who is running
xfstest should ensure incompatible tests are excluded.

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