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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	Qemu-block <qemu-block@nongnu.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] hd-geo-test creates 4GB files on FSes that don't support sparse images, doesn't delete them on error
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:17:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA8CpHkkVi9_BUomseA1mB+6au2ybfdAxKC9D3V6T0eD4Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I've noticed recently that tests/hd-geo-test.c creates test disk
images which are 4GB in size, which is a problem if the filesystem
on the host doesn't support sparse files. In particular, OSX's HFS+
doesn't have sparse file support, and Windows probably doesn't either.
Worse, if the test fails an assertion somewhere the test doesn't
clean up after itself and leaves a 4GB file lying around in /tmp/.

It would be nice if we could skip these tests on filesystems that
don't have sparse file support...

thanks
-- PMM

             reply	other threads:[~2015-08-27 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-27 15:17 Peter Maydell [this message]
2015-08-27 15:29 ` [Qemu-devel] hd-geo-test creates 4GB files on FSes that don't support sparse images, doesn't delete them on error Eric Blake
2015-08-27 16:48   ` John Snow
2015-08-28 13:06     ` Markus Armbruster
2015-08-31 18:54       ` John Snow
2015-08-31 19:25         ` Peter Maydell
2015-09-01  6:02         ` Markus Armbruster

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