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From: "Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz" <arekm@maven.pl>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com, aelder@sgi.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
	Eric@oss.sgi.com, Boris Ranto <branto@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: xfstests 258: Test xfs fs creation with fs size close to 4 TB
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:06:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201109212106.48084.arekm@maven.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316624075.2986.22.camel@doink>

On Wednesday 21 of September 2011, Alex Elder wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 15:52 +0200, Boris Ranto wrote:
> > mkfs.xfs failed to create xfs filesystems with 4 TB minus few bytes due
> > to round up error in mkfs.xfs code.
> > 
> > This test case is a regression test for the fs creation problem.
> > 
> > I've tested the test case with mkfs.xfs patch (in the form posted by
> > Eric Sandeen) and the test passed (and therefore the patch fixed the
> > issue for me).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Boris Ranto <branto@redhat.com>
> 
> This looks OK, but I'm a little concerned about the
> shell's ability to handle > 32-bit values in its
> arithmetic expressions (within $((...))).
> 
> Using ${fourtb} works for me, but I just don't know
> whether it is written somewhere that bash always
> supports 64-bit (or even arbitrary) precision values.

I can say only that bashizm sux. posix shell unfortunately makes problems 
here.

mksh (https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm) supports 32bit arithmetic only (even on 
64bit arch).

single unix spec says "signed long", so you cannot rely on posix shell for > 
32bit values.

-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-21 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-21 13:52 xfstests 258: Test xfs fs creation with fs size close to 4 TB Boris Ranto
2011-09-21 16:54 ` Alex Elder
2011-09-21 19:06   ` Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz [this message]
2011-09-22  8:30   ` Boris Ranto
2011-09-22 16:30     ` Alex Elder
2011-09-26 11:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-26 12:18   ` Alex Elder
2011-09-26 15:59   ` Eric Sandeen

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