Re: [PATCH v1 0/7] Add multi rtgroup grow and shrink tests

Carlos Maiolino
2026-02-24T13:02:14Z

On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 09:07:06AM -0500, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 01:55:51PM +0100, Carlos Maiolino wrote:
> > > This series adds several tests to validate the XFS realtime fs growth and
> > > shrink functionality.
> > > It begins with the introduction of some preconditions and helper
> > > functions, then some tests that validate realtime group growth, followed
> > > by realtime group shrink/removal tests and ends with a test that
> > > validates both growth and shrink functionality together.
> > > Individual patches have the details.
> >
> > Please don't send new versions in reply to the old one, it just make
> > hard to pull patches from the list. b4 usually doesn't handle it
> > gracefully.
>
> I'd like to hear more of this or see some examples. The workflow of replying
> as follow-ups is adopted in many other projects (e.g. git) and they haven't
> reported any difficulties. The only time I'm aware of complications is when
> follow-up series are not properly versioned.

That might be indeed the case then. I just don't have any specific case
to point you now, as this is not something that we see too often on
linux-xfs. But a few times I tried to pull series that were in-reply-to
their old versions, I ended up with the original version, or, IIRC,
once, I kind of ended up with a mixed of patches from both versions.

When there are two versions of the same series in the list, b4 can
easily find out the latest one, but seemed to have trouble (at least in
the past) when they were in-reply-to.