Re: [PATCH] fstests: _fail the tests if _scratch_mount failed to avoid fully filling root fs

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On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 03:23:41PM +0800, Eryu Guan wrote:
> btrfs failed to mount small fs on ppc64 host with error ENOSPC, even
> creating such small fs succeeded, then generic/027 consumed all free
> space on root fs not on SCRATCH_DEV and test harness cannot create tmp
> files and continue other tests.
> 
> Though I think it's a btrfs bug, it's still worth preventing this
> situation from happening in the harness, as such tests usually aim to
> exercise fs on ENOSPC conditions, there's no point to continue if the
> small fs is not mounted.

I think the btrfs bug should be fixed. At minimum, the workaround to
see if the filesytem can be mounted should be in btrfs's
implementation of scratch_mkfs_sized....

Cheers,

Dave.
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