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From: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] xfstests: make more tests generic
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:38:43 -0500
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 12:33 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 05:52:14PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
> > there's a hardcoded path for mkfs.btrfs in common.rc:_scratch_mkfs_sized()
> > 
> > 335     btrfs)
> > 336         /sbin/mkfs.$FSTYP $MKFS_OPTIONS $SCRATCH_DEV -b $fssize
> > 337         ;;
> > 
> > I have a /usr/local/ installation of btrfsprogs from git,
> > _scratch_mkfs_sized() was not called for btrfs before.
> > 
> > Possible ways to fix this:
> > 1) use /sbin/mkfs -t $FSTYP like _scratch_mkfs, or
> > 2) set $MKFS_BTRFS_PROG like for some other filesystems
> > 
> > 
> > What is preferred?
> 
> Please send a patch for variant 2.  As soon as we have option using
> the generic mkfs wrapper sounds like a good idea.  In addition to that
> treating btrfs the same way as other filesystems is always good.

Whoops, we gave different answers.  Do what Christoph says...	-Alex