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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] xfsqa: add delayed allocation @ ENOSPC exerciser
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 02:57:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100304075753.GA16740@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100303223122.GA14317@discord.disaster>

On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:31:22AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> 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.

Ok with that change.  Although beeing able to Ctrl+C testcase is a nice
gimmick to have.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-04  7:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-03  6:19 [PATCH 0/3] xfsqa: new tests and fixes Dave Chinner
2010-03-03  6:19 ` [PATCH 1/3] xfsqa: add delayed allocation @ ENOSPC exerciser Dave Chinner
2010-03-03 12:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-03 22:31     ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-04  7:57       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-03-03  6:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] xfsqa: fix size specification for scratch mkfs Dave Chinner
2010-03-03 12:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-03 16:21     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-03-03 22:56     ` Dave Chinner
2010-03-03  6:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] xfsqa: Add fiemap exerciser Dave Chinner
2010-03-03 12:58   ` Christoph Hellwig

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