Re: [PATCH blktests] common/xfs: ignore the 32M log size during mkfs.xfs

Chaitanya Kulkarni
2022-10-19T19:18:12Z

On 10/19/22 07:19, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 10/19/22 1:16 AM, Chaitanya Kulkarni wrote:
>> On 10/18/22 22:12, Yi Zhang wrote:
>>> The new minimum size for the xfs log is 64MB which introudced from
>>> xfsprogs v5.19.0, let's ignore it, or nvme/013 will be failed at:
>>>
>>
>> instead of removing it set to 64MB ?
>
> What is the advantage of hard-coding any log size? By doing so you are
> overriding mkfs's own best-practice heuristics, and you might run into
> other failures in the future.
>
> Is there a reason to not just use the defaults?
>

I think the point here to use the minimal XFS setup.

Does default size is minimal ? or at least we should document
what the size it is.

-ck