From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: xfs-dev <xfs-dev@sgi.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] xfsqa 073 - don't host loopback images in /tmp
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 02:05:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080515060558.GB8780@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080515013255.GM155679365@sgi.com>
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 11:32:55AM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> /tmp might be small, might not support files larger than 2GB,
> etc, so trying to host loopback images of 100GB filesystems
> will break in some situations. We should use $TEST_DIR for the
> images.
>
> Note: remounting of loopback images has a major bug (in mount)
> that "leaks" loopback device references. Hence all the hackery
> with losetup to work around this.
Looks good.
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2008-05-15 1:32 [patch] xfsqa 073 - don't host loopback images in /tmp David Chinner
2008-05-15 6:05 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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