From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o23MU0G8115248 for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:30:00 -0600 Received: from mail.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id D596621615D for ; Wed, 3 Mar 2010 14:31:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail13.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.98]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id BvFhiIZOk0RlIOia for ; Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:31:26 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:31:22 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] xfsqa: add delayed allocation @ ENOSPC exerciser Message-ID: <20100303223122.GA14317@discord.disaster> References: <1267597162-12092-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1267597162-12092-2-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <20100303125619.GA26672@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100303125619.GA26672@infradead.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 07:56:19AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:19:20PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > + killall -9 dd > /dev/null 2>&1 > > This seems a bit dangerous. I have at least one old system that > uses dd to continously read the kernel message buffer in the > background, and there's tons of other potential dd uses. I only put it there to make sure they all died when I ^C'd out of a test run while testing the test. I forgot to remove it - I'll drop it from the patch. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs