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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Eric Whitney <enwlinux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: possible dev branch regression - xfstest 285/1k
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 12:47:18 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130319014718.GV6369@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130318231233.GQ6369@dastard>

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:12:33AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 03:41:33PM -0500, Ben Myers wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> > 
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:34:59PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > > On 3/18/13 12:09 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:10:51AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > still run with default settings.
> 
> And when the default settings change, or some other bug fix comes
> along?
> 
> So, let's step back a moment and ask ourselves what the test is
> actaully trying to test. zero-out is not what it is trying to test,
> nor is it trying to test specific file layouts. This is a basic
> *defragmenter* sanity test. SO, we're testing 2 things:

Sorry about this - I've mixed up my threads about ext4 having
problems with zero-out being re-enabled. I thought this was a
cross-post of the 218 issue....

However, the same reasoning can be applied to 285 - the file sizes,
the size of the holes and the size of the data is all completely
arbitrary. If we make the holes in the files larger, then the
zero-out problem simply goes away.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-19  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-15 22:28 possible dev branch regression - xfstest 285/1k Eric Whitney
2013-03-16  2:32 ` Zheng Liu
2013-03-16 15:09 ` Zheng Liu
2013-03-17  3:06   ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-17  6:13     ` Zheng Liu
2013-03-18 16:10     ` Eric Sandeen
2013-03-18 16:54       ` gnehzuil.liu
2013-03-18 17:09       ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-18 17:34         ` Eric Sandeen
2013-03-18 20:41           ` Ben Myers
2013-03-18 23:12             ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-19  1:40               ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-19  2:07                 ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-19  1:47               ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2013-03-19  2:00                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-19  2:22                   ` Dave Chinner
2013-03-19  2:28                   ` Eric Sandeen
2013-03-19  8:50                     ` Lukáš Czerner
2013-03-17  3:36   ` Eric Whitney

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