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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com, lsf@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	"Linux FS Devel" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Sedat Dilek" <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>,
	"Lukáš Czerner" <lczerner@redhat.com>,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Lsf] [PATCH] xfstests-bld: Simplify determination of number of CPUs in build-all
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:46:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <533DD6B0.6010102@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrVq1DfpyhThajc9FYA7NLWYt9oX4vadCDcqn+d26aALGA@mail.gmail.com>

On 4/3/14, 1:21 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> wrote:

...

>>> The various test scripts do need to be able to find the device where
>>> the file system lives, and parsing /etc/fstab would be awkward.  So if
>>> your comment is that either the /etc/fstab entry shouldn't be
>>> required, or the xfstests runtime environment should be able to derive
>>> $SCRATCH_DEV automatically from $SCRATCH_MNT, or vice versa, instead
>>
>> I guess I don't know why you'd expect to derive one from the other...
> 
> Sigh.
> 
> If $SCRATCH_MNT is specified, then the line in /etc/fstab is
> unnecessary.  If $SCRATCH_MNT is not specified, then /etc/fstab will
> do the trick.
> 
> What does not work is specifying $SCRATCH_DIR [sic] but not adding an
> fstab entry.  Oops.

Oh, I see.

I'd never really thought about xfstests devices as "part of the system" -
since they're constantly scribbled on, re-made, etc, and managed wholly
by xfstests (at least the scratch device) - so the notion of using fstab
was just outside my realm of expected behaviors.  :)

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-04-03 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1395997399-3000-1-git-send-email-sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
     [not found] ` <20140328161806.GA31772@thunk.org>
2014-03-31  2:51   ` [Lsf] [PATCH] xfstests-bld: Simplify determination of number of CPUs in build-all Dave Chinner
2014-04-01  2:37     ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-01 22:28       ` Dave Chinner
2014-04-02 14:26         ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-03  1:14           ` Dave Chinner
2014-04-03 10:26             ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-04-03 17:05               ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-04-03 17:35                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-03 17:42                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-04-03 19:06                   ` Eric Sandeen
2014-04-03 19:21                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-04-03 21:46                       ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2014-04-03 19:30                     ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-03 21:20                       ` Dave Chinner
2014-04-03 13:16           ` Mel Gorman

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