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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests: introduce FSX_AVOID env var
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:57:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <535A69E0.80900@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140425063153.GC27527@infradead.org>

On 4/25/14, 1:31 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:30:04AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Just like FSSTRESS_AVOID, FSX_AVOID can be used to add
>> options at the end of the default fsx runs in each test.
>> i.e. FSX_AVOID="-H -z -C" will disable punch hole, zero range,
>> and collapse range calls in all tests which run fsx.
>>
>> This should handle Ted's concerns about buggy ext4 fallocate
>> code without needing to add tunables to the kernel to reject
>> these operations during xfstests runs.
> 
> I would much prefer to add a little _run_fsx helper to encapsulate this.
> 

Dave already merged it, but yeah, that's a good idea, for fsx
as well as fsstress.

-Eric


      reply	other threads:[~2014-04-25 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-21 16:30 [PATCH] xfstests: introduce FSX_AVOID env var Eric Sandeen
2014-04-25  6:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-04-25 13:57   ` Eric Sandeen [this message]

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