Re: [PATCH] generic/805: fix for external RT devices

[Zorro Lang <zlang@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 08:21:18AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> use _mkfs_dev on the dm device instead of _scratch_mkfs_sized, otherwise
> the file system could be created with an external RT device, and will
> then fail to mount without it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> ---

This change is good to me,

Reviewed-by: Zorro Lang <zlang@kernel.org>

>  tests/generic/805 | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tests/generic/805 b/tests/generic/805
> index ae498f5c6698..401829c4c6fc 100755
> --- a/tests/generic/805
> +++ b/tests/generic/805
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ _cleanup()
>  	rm -f $tmp.*
>  }
>  
> -_require_scratch
> +_require_scratch_nocheck
>  _require_dm_target linear
>  _require_freeze
>  
> @@ -39,13 +39,13 @@ echo "Silence is golden"
>  
>  size=$((256 * 1024 * 1024))
>  size_in_sector=$((size / 512))
> -_scratch_mkfs_sized $size >> $seqres.full 2>&1
>  
>  node=$seq-test
>  lvdev=/dev/mapper/$node
>  table="0 $size_in_sector linear $SCRATCH_DEV 0"
>  _dmsetup_create $node --table "$table" || \
>  	_fail "failed to create dm device"
> +_mkfs_dev $lvdev >> $seqres.full 2>&1
>  
>  _mount $lvdev $SCRATCH_MNT || _fail "failed to mount dm device"
>  
> -- 
> 2.53.0
>