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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	Eryu Guan <eguan@redhat.com>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, fstests@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs/122: reduce xfs_dsb_t size
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:30:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170124173027.GA30053@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc480f83-5d14-fbeb-f56d-be4dbd002b01@sandeen.net>

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:11:35AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Philosophically (I'm good at that) how do we handle tests like this
> that really only work on the latest version of the code, but don't
> actually indicate a bug if it fails on something older?

That might be another argument for doing the smaller than check that
Darrick suggested.  Or an argument for simply stopping to check xfs_dsb,
it's growing constantly.  Checking the offsets of known fields IFF
present wold seem more useful.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-01-24 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-24 17:08 [PATCH] xfs/122: reduce xfs_dsb_t size Darrick J. Wong
2017-01-24 17:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-24 17:11   ` Eric Sandeen
2017-01-24 17:30     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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