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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Eryu Guan <eguan@redhat.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests 235: do smaller test IO
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:21:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F70EBD8.9030006@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120326220926.GO5091@dastard>

On 3/26/12 5:09 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 02:30:33PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Test 235 fails on ext2/ext3 with 1024 fs block size because a
>> 16k write uses an extra metadata block.  If we do a smaller write
>> this won't happen.
> .....
>>  
>> -$XFS_IO_PROG -F -c 'pwrite 0 16k' -c 'fsync' \
>> +$XFS_IO_PROG -F -c 'pwrite 0 8k' -c 'fsync' \
> 
> So now it fails only on 512 byte block size filesystems?

ext[23] don't do 512 byte block filesystems, so no.  ;)

> Perhaps rather than an exact match, a "within_tolerance" match could
> be done on the relevant fields?
> 
> i.e something like:
> 
> blksused=`{requota cmd} | awk '/fsgqa/ { print $3 }'`
> _within_tolerance "blocks used" $blksused 16 1
> 
> If you wanted to get really fancy, the tolerance could be set
> depending on filesystem type and block size, but I don't think that
> is really necessary....

But I don't want to get really fancy, I spend enough time in xfstests
already.  ;)


TBH even the _within_tolerance will take more munging around to get right,
it doesn't seem worth it, but if it's required for a review, ok...

-Eric

> Cheers,
> 
> Dave.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-26 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-26 19:30 [PATCH] xfstests 235: do smaller test IO Eric Sandeen
2012-03-26 22:09 ` Dave Chinner
2012-03-26 22:21   ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2012-03-27  1:18     ` Dave Chinner

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