[LTP] [PATCH v1 1/1] test_robind: add "-f" mkfs option for xfs and btrfs

[Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cyril Hrubis" <chrubis@suse.cz>
> To: "Jan Stancek" <jstancek@redhat.com>
> Cc: "Boyang Xue" <bxue@redhat.com>, "stanislav kholmanskikh" <stanislav.kholmanskikh@oracle.com>, ltp@lists.linux.it
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 May, 2016 5:26:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH v1 1/1] test_robind: add "-f" mkfs option for xfs and	btrfs
> 
> Hi!
> > Alternative would be to zero-erase first blocks of LTP_BIG_DEV
> > in runltp, but I'm not sure we want to assume that all tests
> > are going to write over it.
> > 
> > I found only 3 tests using LTP_BIG_DEV, this is the only
> > one that is using xfs/btrfs, the other two are ext3/4.
> 
> Or we can move the dd that erases first blocks from tst_acquire_device()
> to tst_mkfs().

I went to re-read why we are avoiding -f, and this does sound better
than adding -f back.

Regards,
Jan

> 
> Or we can create an API function to get the path to big device and erase
> it there...
> 
> --
> Cyril Hrubis
> chrubis@suse.cz
>