From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay1.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.111]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q85GQ8UH086908 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:26:08 -0500 Message-ID: <50477D60.8000604@sgi.com> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:27:12 -0500 From: Rich Johnston MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] xfstests: enable large fs testing on ext4 References: <1343291989-14987-1-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> <1343291989-14987-9-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> In-Reply-To: <1343291989-14987-9-git-send-email-david@fromorbit.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On 07/26/2012 03:39 AM, Dave Chinner wrote: > From: Dave Chinner > > Now that setting up large filesystem testing on sparse loopback > devices uses a generic method for filling the filesystem, extent > support to ext4 filesystems. > > ext4 is slightly more complex to fill as it does not support files > larger than 16TB. Hence a slightly more complex method of using > multiple smaller files to fill the space is necessary. > > WARNING: be prepeared for ext4 to take forever to prepare large > filesystems as allocation of large amounts of space (especially as > it approaches ENOSPC) is can take minutes rather than milliseconds > > Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner > --- > common.rc | 90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+) > Looks good. Reviewed-by: Rich Johnston Regards --Rich _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs