From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ben England <bengland@redhat.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests: Ensure cmdline geometry puts mkfs.xfs into multidisk mode
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 10:27:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C36A83.1040406@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121208120007.GB4430@infradead.org>
On 12/8/12 6:00 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 04:02:16PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Ensure that when mkfs.xfs is invoked with commandline geometry, it
>> triggers multidisk mode and creates more AGs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
>
> Looks good,
>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Thanks
>> Maybe this should also test device-specified geometry, but not sure
>> how to do that easily within xfstests, any ideas?
>
> That would involved scsi_debug so that we could set them up. We had
> several ideas how to use scsi debug for these sort of tests but never
> really bothered to do it. If you have some spare cycles I'd love to see
> this sort of tests.
scsi_debug won't report geometry on its own today; we'd need to assemble
something out of scsi_debug luns I'm afraid, so it gets even more involved.
We do have a little bit of scsi_debug framework in xfstests today, though,
so if scsi_debug grew the capability it'd be easy to add.
-Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-08 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-20 16:34 [PATCH, RFC] mkfs.xfs: go into multidisk mode when geometry is on cmdline Eric Sandeen
2012-11-21 9:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-12-06 21:35 ` [PATCH V2] " Eric Sandeen
2012-12-06 21:52 ` [PATCH V3] " Eric Sandeen
2012-12-08 11:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-12-06 22:02 ` [PATCH] xfstests: Ensure cmdline geometry puts mkfs.xfs into multidisk mode Eric Sandeen
2012-12-08 12:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-12-08 16:27 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2012-12-09 23:51 ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-10 0:23 ` Eric Sandeen
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