On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 07:41:50PM -0600, Jayashree Mohan wrote: > Hi all, > > We understand the concern about testing times. To choose a middle > ground, Ted's suggestion of using _scratch_mkfs_sized works best for > CrashMonkey specific tests. These tests involve very few files and it > suffices to have a 100MB file system. I tested the patch on ext4, xfs, > btrfs and f2fs on a partition of this size. The overhead due to > _check_scratch_fs after each sub test is in the range of 3-5 seconds 3-5 second per invocation of _check_scratch_fs? > for all these file systems. If this is tolerable, we can force a Not if your numbers that means 300 x 3-5 seconds. That's 15-25 minutes of extra runtime. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx