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From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: zlang@kernel.org, fstests@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shared/298: run xfs_db against the loop device instead of the image file
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2024 11:51:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240302195150.GV6226@frogsfrogsfrogs> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240302140141.GA1170@lst.de>

On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 03:01:41PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 09:47:56AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > Might want to leave a comment here about why xfs uses $loop_dev unlike
> > the other clauses that use $img_file
> 
> Well, as I tried to explain in my commit message running it against
> the file always seemed weird.  The loop device is the canonical place
> to run fs tools against.  I can throw in a cleanup patch to also do
> this for the other file systems.

That would also work.

--D

  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-02 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-01 15:28 [PATCH] shared/298: run xfs_db against the loop device instead of the image file Christoph Hellwig
2024-03-01 17:47 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-03-02 14:01   ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-03-02 19:51     ` Darrick J. Wong [this message]
2024-03-03 13:10 ` Zorro Lang
2024-03-03 14:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2024-03-03 14:41     ` Zorro Lang

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