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From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
To: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
Cc: xiao yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	eguan@redhat.com, fstests@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH blktests] block/013: Add test for BLKRRPART ioctl
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 09:03:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mqdwp1homgq.fsf@linux-x5ow.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171219194228.GB22017@vader.DHCP.thefacebook.com> (Omar Sandoval's message of "Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:42:28 -0800")

Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:47:09AM +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
>> xiao yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com> writes:
>> 
>> > +requires() {
>> > +	_have_program mkfs.ext3
>> > +}
>> [...]
>> > +	# Format
>> > +	mkfs.ext3 -F "$TEST_DEV" >> "$FULL" 2>&1
>> 
>> What's the reason to limit the test case to ext3 only? Can you switch it
>> to the generic 'mkfs' command? IIRC we require 'util-linux' to be
>> present for blktests but mkfs.ext3 is (at least in SUSE based distros)
>> in the e2fsprogs package.
>
> I'm fine with only testing one specific filesystem, since we're really
> testing generic functionality and not any filesystem code. And according
> to the manpage, bare mkfs is deprecated. I'm fine with requiring
> e2fsprogs for this test, and xiao yang added the _have_program there for
> it.

what about something like (totally untested):

if _have_program mkfs.ext3; then
   mkfs_prog="mkfs.ext3"
   return 1
elif _have_program mkfs.xfs; then
   mkfs_prog="mkfs.xfs"
   return 1
elif _have_program mkfs.brtfs; then
   mkfs_prog="mkfs.brtfs"
   return 1
else
   retrun 0
fi


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  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-20  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1511956946-16667-1-git-send-email-yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
2017-12-04  8:29 ` [PATCH] generic/473: test return EBUSY from BLKRRPART for mounted whole-dev Eryu Guan
2017-12-04  9:15   ` Xiao Yang
2017-12-04  9:25     ` Eryu Guan
2017-12-04  9:48       ` Xiao Yang
2017-12-04 18:29         ` Omar Sandoval
2017-12-19 10:30           ` [PATCH blktests] block/013: Add test for BLKRRPART ioctl xiao yang
2017-12-19 10:47             ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-12-19 19:42               ` Omar Sandoval
2017-12-20  8:03                 ` Johannes Thumshirn [this message]
2017-12-19 23:42             ` Omar Sandoval
2017-12-19 10:45           ` [PATCH] generic/473: test return EBUSY from BLKRRPART for mounted whole-dev Xiao Yang
2017-12-19 10:53             ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-12-19 10:59               ` Xiao Yang

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