From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Cc: eguan@redhat.com, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, fstests@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] xfs: fix tests to handle removal of no-alloc create nonfeature
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:12:23 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171213221223.GZ4094@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <151314502196.18893.14496524309954254435.stgit@magnolia>
On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 10:03:42PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> From: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
>
> We're removing from XFS the ability to perform no-allocation file
> creation. This was added years ago because someone at SGI demanded that
> we still be able to create (empty?) files with zero free blocks
Just to correct the record, it wasn't SGI that demanded this - it
was implemented by SGI a long, long time ago (~1998) in response to
customer demands.
> remaining so long as there were free inodes and space in existing
> directory blocks. This came at an unacceptable risk of ENOSPC'ing
> midway through a transaction and shutting down the fs, so we're removing
> it for the create case.
Well, 20 years later we consider it an unacceptible risk. :P
> However, some tests fail as a result, so fix them to be more flexible
> about not failing when a dir/file creation fails due to ENOSPC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Looks fine.
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
--
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-13 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-13 6:03 [PATCH 0/8] weekly fstests changes Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-13 6:03 ` [PATCH 1/8] common/rc: report kmemleak errors Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-14 9:37 ` Eryu Guan
2017-12-14 18:15 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-01-05 8:02 ` Eryu Guan
2018-01-05 17:02 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-01-07 15:25 ` Eryu Guan
2017-12-13 6:03 ` [PATCH 2/8] common/xfs: fix scrub support probing again Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-13 6:03 ` [PATCH 3/8] generic/45[34]: test line draw characters in file/attr names Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-13 6:03 ` [PATCH 4/8] xfs: fix tests to handle removal of no-alloc create nonfeature Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-13 22:12 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2017-12-13 22:45 ` [PATCH v2 " Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-13 6:03 ` [PATCH 5/8] generic: test error shutdown while stressing filesystem Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-13 6:03 ` [PATCH 6/8] fsstress: implement the clonerange/deduperange ioctls Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-14 6:39 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-12-14 7:32 ` Eryu Guan
2017-12-14 20:20 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-15 2:07 ` [PATCH v2 " Darrick J. Wong
2018-01-03 8:48 ` Eryu Guan
2018-01-03 17:12 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-01-05 4:35 ` Eryu Guan
2018-01-05 4:54 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-01-06 1:46 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-01-09 7:09 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-02-22 16:06 ` Luis Henriques
2018-02-22 17:27 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-02-22 18:17 ` Luis Henriques
2018-02-22 18:34 ` Darrick J. Wong
2018-02-23 10:17 ` Luis Henriques
2017-12-13 6:04 ` [PATCH 7/8] generic: run a long-soak write-only fsstress test Darrick J. Wong
2018-01-07 15:34 ` Eryu Guan
2017-12-13 6:04 ` [PATCH 8/8] xfs/068: fix variability problems in file/dir count output Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-13 22:20 ` Dave Chinner
2017-12-13 22:23 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-13 22:45 ` Dave Chinner
2017-12-13 23:17 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-13 23:42 ` Dave Chinner
2017-12-13 23:28 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] xfs/068: fix clonerange " Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-13 23:44 ` Dave Chinner
2017-12-14 6:52 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-12-14 7:37 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-12-14 7:49 ` Eryu Guan
2017-12-14 8:15 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-12-14 21:35 ` Dave Chinner
2017-12-15 2:04 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-15 4:37 ` Dave Chinner
2017-12-15 7:06 ` Amir Goldstein
2017-12-15 2:08 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] xfs/068: fix variability " Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-15 2:16 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-15 2:17 ` [PATCH v4 " Darrick J. Wong
2017-12-15 8:55 ` [PATCH 0/8] weekly fstests changes Eryu Guan
2018-01-03 19:22 ` [PATCH 9/8] xfs: find libxfs api violations Darrick J. Wong
2018-01-03 19:26 ` [PATCH 10/8] xfs: check that fs freeze minimizes required recovery Darrick J. Wong
2018-01-09 11:33 ` Eryu Guan
2018-01-10 0:03 ` Darrick J. Wong
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