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Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:02:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:02:43 +0800 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] fstests: add _mkfs_scratch_clone() helper To: Christoph Hellwig , Zorro Lang Cc: Anand Jain , fstests@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org References: <254fdd3e212f6618ea33207ef24db2b316d2d8fc.1772095513.git.asj@kernel.org> <20260309191317.vxcjvqfpoqdiycki@dell-per750-06-vm-08.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com> <43710dd2-4282-4475-a29d-983295fab86f@gmail.com> <20260314170422.a62qqwqe6agom443@dell-per750-06-vm-08.rhts.eng.pek2.redhat.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Anand Jain In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 17/3/26 00:15, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 01:04:22AM +0800, Zorro Lang wrote: >> I'm concerned that testers from other filesystems might not be familiar >> with SCRATCH_DEV_POOL, as it's typically not a requirement for their >> testing. I'm not sure if they would be willing to configure and switch >> to SCRATCH_DEV_POOL, just for these few test cases. If we can avoid making >> the pool to be a hard requirement, it might be more user-friendly for other >> fs list. Welcome feedback and review points from other filesystem mailing >> lists :) > > Yes, doing this using loop devices or ramdisk is going to get us much > better coverage. Agreed. Let's stick with SCRATCH_DEV compatibility for now. v2 is in the ML. Thanks.